Currently, communities using the content localization feature can select multiple languages to show localized content. For example, a forum may have German, English, French set up in content localization supported locales.
Right now, users are only able to select one of the languages the forum supports.
If a topic has posts written in all three languages, Günter would see all those in German only despite being fluent in all three languages.
The goal of this feature topic is to allow such multilingual users to select multiple languages and see the posts written in their original word, instead of just one language. Another thing to be mindful of is that user.locale is currently being used to determine the language controls (buttons, labels, tooltips, etc), and that should be the user’s primary language.
Here are supporting quotes from largely the same few topics:
One UX question we’ll have to figure out is how to surface the option to the user. If we use the existing user.locale and allow an array e.g. ['en', 'ja', 'ko'], there are many other places that would be affected, as opposed to keeping user.locale to one and adding another user field altogether. If we add a new user field, we also have to think about location.