Can you override the locale via theme files?

[sevadev-ramchandra]

I want to change some placeholder text, and I want it do via locale files, so there any way to do?

I have tried using by creating config/locales/client.en.yml, previously there was not those files present in themes, I also tried using locales/en.yml, but none of these works.

I think I can do this via admin settings → text and change value from there, but I want to achieve that from discourse theme files.

So is there any working method to achieve this?

[Lhc_fl (Linca)]

Yes, you can.

An example:

I18n.translations[I18n.currentLocale()].js.composer.reply = "ylper";

[sevadev-ramchandra]

Can we achieve that from locale yml files ?

[Lhc_fl (Linca)]

I don’t know, I haven’t found any example of this yet. (maybe there are too few theme components I’ve looked at)

[Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin)]

Hi

@sevadev-ramchandra

but I want to achieve that from discourse theme files.

Why?

If you change Discourse’s files, they will be overwritten each time you update it.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

@Lhc_fl

I18n.translations[I18n.currentLocale()].js.composer.reply = "ylper";

@sevadev-ramchandra

Can we achieve that from locale yml files ?

You can combine these two approaches, so something like:

I18n.translations[I18n.currentLocale()].js.composer.reply = I18n.t(themePrefix("my_translation_key"));