# Post not being detected as German
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai, content-localization
**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708 "2026-04-15T15:25:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/1 "2026-04-15T15:25:16Z")
[This post in my community is in German](https://community.netwrix.com/t/warnung-bei-berechtigungsfehlern/128308), but it’s not being translated.
I tried forcing a translation, but it didn’t seem to work.
I’m curious what happens if I select German here. Does that force a language to be “set”?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/2 "2026-04-15T15:37:54Z")
> [@putty](#):
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> I’m curious what happens if I select German here. Does that force a language to be “set”?
Yes, that is exactly what it does.
> [@putty](#):
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> [This post in my community is in German](https://community.netwrix.com/t/warnung-bei-berechtigungsfehlern/128308), but it’s not being translated.
It is mixed between English and German, with the titles being all in English, so it’s a tricky one. No wonder the LLM is saying English, as titles carry more importance usually.
Setting it manually is the way to go indeed.
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/3 "2026-04-15T16:17:01Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> Yes, that is exactly what it does.
I did this and waited about 20 minutes, but no translation populated. Even after selecting the **Translate post** option.
I manually added a translation, but now I don’t see a way to provide a translated title. Any tips?
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### Author:  [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/4 "2026-04-15T16:59:03Z")
> [@putty](#):
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> I did this and waited about 20 minutes, but no translation populated. Even after selecting the **Translate post** option.
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> I manually added a translation, but now I don’t see a way to provide a translated title. Any tips?
I’ve come across this problem too. The solution was to select the language option first, and then add the title and content. That’s how I managed to sort it out.
If the new language you’ve added still isn’t visible, then you’ll need to delete the language option and recreate it as I’ve described.
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/5 "2026-04-15T18:40:26Z")
Ya know what.. It is giving me an error about the title being missing. My guess is it’s related to using a post template:
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### Author:  [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/6 "2026-04-15T18:56:20Z")
Actually, the situation is quite clear. There is an issue with the theme you are using. The **title** information disappears when you select a language. I would recommend trying a _ **preview** _ with a different theme. If you can see the **title** in the preview, there is a missing field in the language settings of the theme you are using.
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/7 "2026-04-15T19:13:14Z")
> [@canbekcan](#):
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> I would recommend trying a _ **preview** _ with a different theme. If you can see the **title** in the preview, there is a missing field in the language settings of the theme you are using.
That’s a good idea!
It’s still missing when I preview it in Foundation. I’m also realizing that when I edit the translation, it’s empty:
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### Author:  [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/8 "2026-04-15T19:24:18Z")
I checked on my own system, and I started getting the same error too. I think the changes made in the latest updates caused this. It seems the changes made to the discourse-ai system are preventing manual edits. I was able to perform these actions yesterday, but after today’s updates, I can no longer do so.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/39291/changes/BASE..3d5f71c71ebe6a35bd583d0da37c861e469bd109](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/39291/changes/BASE..3d5f71c71ebe6a35bd583d0da37c861e469bd109)
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d5173c62b534f0cd7ee1bc547d7ef3e97a811d6f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/d5173c62b534f0cd7ee1bc547d7ef3e97a811d6f)
For your information @nat
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 4:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/9 "2026-04-16T04:01:56Z")
That can’t be. Those 2 commits above have nothing to do with the translation feature itself.
Meta is still translating fine.
What LLM are you using? Gemini? Please note there are deprecations for some models - [https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations)
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/10 "2026-04-16T14:00:51Z")
> [@nat](#):
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> What LLM are you using?
Coincidentally, we were in the middle of switching Claude plans, and our translator was using an old API key. When I switched our translator back to CDCK’s LLM, and I viewed the topic shortly after, the title was translated.
I think it all stemmed from some back-end user error on our part. I think we’re good now!
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### Author:  [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/11 "2026-04-16T14:01:05Z")
I do not use any AI to translate or write anything into my forum. I just found these pulls related localization issue which effect my forum after the updates. It might be composer part too but I could not find any pull related with it.
These may not create problem but I started to face the issue after April 14, 08:00 PM. If you help to find the issue I would be grateful because I cannot use any AI to translate in my forum (it is academic).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/12 "2026-04-16T14:23:10Z")
The dropdown to choose the language was moved into the composer toolbar
Before:
Now:
The change happened in [UX: move post language selector to toolbar, deprioritize for AI by awesomerobot · Pull Request #39208 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/39208)
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### Author:  [@putty](https://meta.discourse.org/u/putty)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/13 "2026-04-16T14:30:27Z")
Good to know, thanks! I don’t think our site has updated to that yet.
Albeit, I actually prefer the older positioning 🙃
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/14 "2026-04-16T15:29:06Z")
> [@canbekcan](#):
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> I started to face the issue after April 14, 08:00 PM
I’d like to help. Can you create a new topic to reiterate your issue please, given this one’s now solved? (feel free to @ me there).
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### Author:  [@canbekcan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/canbekcan)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/15 "2026-04-16T18:28:41Z")
Thank you for your efforts. @Moin has clarified the situation.
As academics cannot tolerate even a single incorrect word, we need to leave the work to them without using machine translation. I apologise for taking up your time with this matter.
Also, I too prefer the old position, like @putty . It looked more visually appealing 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2026, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-not-being-detected-as-german/400708/16 "2026-05-16T18:28:58Z")
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