# 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:** [23. Februar 2015 um 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")\
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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:** [23. Februar 2015 um 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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