# Placeholder texts showing instead of default translation string with tagging plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** translation\
**Created:** [2015年二月23日 06:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554 "2015-02-23T06:03:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Uninen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uninen/32/66432_2.png) [@Uninen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Uninen)\
**Post date:** [2015年二月23日 06:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/1 "2015-02-23T06:03:17Z")

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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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**Author:** ![sigurdur](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sigurdur/32/122516_2.png) [@sigurdur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sigurdur)\
**Post date:** [2015年二月23日 16:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/2 "2015-02-23T16:39:12Z")

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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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**Author:** ![sigurdur](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sigurdur/32/122516_2.png) [@sigurdur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sigurdur)\
**Post date:** [2015年二月23日 16:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/3 "2015-02-23T16:41:15Z")

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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.. 😉

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**Author:** ![Uninen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/uninen/32/66432_2.png) [@Uninen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Uninen)\
**Post date:** [2015年二月23日 17:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/4 "2015-02-23T17:22:33Z")

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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 😄

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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2017年五月9日 18:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/5 "2017-05-09T18:12:51Z")

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

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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [2017年五月9日 18:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/placeholder-texts-showing-instead-of-default-translation-string-with-tagging-plugin/25554/6 "2017-05-09T18:12:53Z")

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