# Posting in a disabled language

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-in-a-disabled-language/412608
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** content-localization
**Created:** [16 september 2026 om 18:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-in-a-disabled-language/412608 "2026-09-16T18:06:53Z")
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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [17 september 2026 om 13:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-in-a-disabled-language/412608/12 "2026-09-17T13:49:00Z")

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> [@mbauman](#):
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> folks will want to post in one of the non-translated languages

> [@Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-manual-and-automatic-with-discourse-ai/370969/1):
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> This is already possible and mentioned in the documentation
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> > [@Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-manual-and-automatic-with-discourse-ai/370969/1):
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> > **If my forum supports English and Japanese (via `Content localization supported locales`), and someone writes in Spanish, will their post be translated?**  
> > Yes. All topics and posts will be translated to English and Japanese, regardless of the written language.

I might be missing part of the concern here. As @Moin mentioned above, people can already post in languages outside the site’s supported list. With automatic translation enabled, language detection and translation happen without the author needing to select a language, so people can just write in the language they’re comfortable with.

Is the concern that the composer’s language menu makes this seem unsupported?

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