# Locale-specific defaults for site settings (\`locale\_default\`)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-specific-defaults-for-site-settings-locale-default/382521
**Category:** Translations
**Tags:** translation
**Created:** [September 13, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-specific-defaults-for-site-settings-locale-default/382521 "2025-09-13T14:29:07Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locale-specific-defaults-for-site-settings-locale-default/382521/2 "2025-09-13T14:30:13Z")

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One aspect that confused me when I created my German forum was that while Umlauts were configured in `allowed_unicode_username_characters`, I still wasn’t able to use them because `unicode_usernames` was still disabled.

I remember that this can also be a problem when the default group names, like the trust level groups, contain Unicode characters.

> [@Built-in groups localization inconsistency](https://meta.discourse.org/t/built-in-groups-localization-inconsistency/345415/10):
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> OK, that helped. Now it shows everywhere. Wow. But that means that my localization requires the unicode flag to be turned on otherwise it works strange. I guess I should change the localization not to include unicode characters. Maybe you should give a hint about that in Crowdin.

I wonder why no defaults were defined for `unicode_usernames`.

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