Placeholder texts showing instead of default translation string with tagging plugin

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So I’ve just installed Discourse using Finnish locale and tagging plugin. Seems that latter isn’t (fully?) translated yet, and the placeholder strings aren’t very friendly. I assume you’d wanna show default (English) strings when something is not translated?

A couple of examples;

  • In the hamburger menu the “tags” string shows as: [fi.tagging.tags],
  • In post creation form instead of “choose optional tags for this topic” [fi.tagging.choose_for_topic] is shown,
  • etc.

Is there a simple workaround for this?

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Yup … copy the english locales to finnish.

cp [PLUGINPATH]/config/locales/client.en.yml [PLUGINPATH]/config/locales/client.fi.yml
cp [PLUGINPATH]/config/locales/server.en.yml [PLUGINPATH]/config/locales/server.fi.yml

You need to enter your web container if you’re using docker and go to /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-tagging/ (that’s your pluginpath).
After you do this, you need to restart the docker (maybe rebuild it even)

If you have a manual setup, you have to figure out on your own where your ruby files are located

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oh … and in client.fi.yml, you have to change the first line en: to fi:

Alternatively, create a translation and submit it as a push request on github… :wink:

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Thanks for the guidance!

New to Docker (and Rails!), so takes a bit of learning to get around.

I’ll request a membership for the translation team – maybe I can contribute that way :smile:

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This is no longer an issue as we fallback and tagging is now in core.

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