Is there a way to detect what language was chosen by the user? The default language is availabe in the lang attribute of the html tag. Would it be possible to add a custom attribute with the chosen language? This is necessary to translate UI customizations.

This has come up before: [صورة] Variable default interface language for new users Feature Hey guys, New Discourse user here, but super impressed and excited about what a great product it is. I am developing a forum that will be multilingual (Arabic/English/Ge…

There’s a plugin for this that works well. It needs to be updated to work with the new plugin API. I can do that later today.

Simon, I do not see where your plugin adds an attribute to the page with the chosen language code. Am I missing something? Maybe it is easy to add? Anyway, thank you for proposing to update it. However, I don’t know yet if I will be able to use it.

It sets the locale. The UI is then automatically translated by Discourse. What is the attribute that you would like to be adding? edit - I see :slight_smile: - yes that would be possible. [صورة] gberaudo: The default language is availabe in the lang attribute of the html tag.Would it be possi…

It seems possible to add a custom menu through admin->Customize->css_html section. This menu must be localized. If I can find out the chosen language from the page, I can chose the correct translation for the menu.

The chosen locale is always available on the client as I18n.locale. Maybe you can find it that way in your code.

[صورة] simon: There’s a plugin for this that works well. It needs to be updated to work with the new plugin API. I can do that later today. Hi @simon , indeed your plugin is great. I gave it a try on my dev instance (v1.5.0.beta8 +164) and it was fantastic! I found out about the new plugin AP…

Detecting user language

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) 3 مارس 2016، 3:09م 2

This has come up before:

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Detecting user language

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