How do I add languages to the language selector that aren’t listed under “Content Localization Supported Locales”? I’d like to add several Indian languages so users can select their preferred language and have AI automatically translate forum posts for them. Since AI can translate between virtuall…

I think there are two things being conflated here. A model may be able to translate content into many languages, but this language selector changes the user’s Discourse locale, including both the user interface and user content. For example, our AI feature may be able to translate a post into Hind…

I’m curious, can you list which languages you’d want to see there?

I’d like to see Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam—which are native to over 750 million people. To clarify, I just want the actual posts to be translated using AI; I don’t need to worry about translating the Discourse interface like buttons and labels.

Personally, I would prefer our core app to keep to our standard here [image] How to add a new language Translations We will add new languages when the translation progress for core is at least at 50%. [image] Add Uyghur lan…

Then the plugin Nat suggested seems like a good solution. You use it to add the locales, but don’t spend time translating Discourse for them. Though it would be great to also have the Discourse interface available for all the users speaking those languages. So maybe the plugin works as a short-term…

Can I add additional languages to the Language Selector?

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Can I add additional languages to the Language Selector?

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