We have set up content localization on Discourse 3.5: [image] A topic has been translated from the default locale Dutch to English (UK) as visible at the red 3: [image] When using a private browser window, the locale chooser appears, but changing it makes no change to the actual text: The sam…

[image] monty25: What could be the reason that the translated text is not displayed? Could you hit the normal edit button for the post, and check that the post’s original language is correct? [Screenshot 2025-08-30 at 12.48.04 PM] [image] monty25: no hreflang links are present We h…

@monty25 were you able to resolve your issue? As Moin points out, the translation work is fairly bleeding edge and if you want to use it you will want to be on latest, not stable.

Translation not displayed on locale change, but html language changes nonetheless

Support

Moin August 30, 2025, 5:55am 3

So you are on the stable branch? I’m afraid the new setting Nat mentioned in the end is too new, so it is not available there.

Topic		Replies	Views
Show which text elements depend on user locale UX	2	919	May 30, 2017
Topic list is shown in a language (DE) but has one (DE) topic not translated Bug content-localization , fixed	9	70	April 24, 2026
Some of Site Texts doesn't accept changes Support	10	767	September 30, 2020
Translates to user's local language Support translator	5	198	July 22, 2024
Localized content shows raw HTML or json Bug content-localization	2	88	September 15, 2025

Translation not displayed on locale change, but html language changes nonetheless

Related topics