Locale and UI language

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

There are no plans to split up the current locale system into locale and UI language in the near future. However, I agree, it would be a good thing to do.

Anyway, I think the current system can already be used to create region specific locales. We have client.en_US.yml and server.en_US.yml which override date/time formats, numbers, etc.

I’m sure something similar could be done for Arabic. It should even be possible to do this with a plugin.

Add a new locale from plugin

Usually the best way to add a new language to Discourse is by creating a pull request as described in “How to add a new language”. The following guide is for you, if you want to use a language that can’t be added to core right now. Adding a locale that extends an existing locale Let’s say you want to add a Spanish locale for Mexico (es_MX). Discourse already ships a Spanish locale (es), so this is quite easy. Your plugin’s directory structure should look like this: custom-locales ├── asset…