# Search help doesn't work for some locales

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-help-doesnt-work-for-some-locales/31350>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** translation\
**Created:** [23.Июль.2015 12:54:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-help-doesnt-work-for-some-locales/31350 "2015-07-23T12:54:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)\
**Post date:** [19.Август.2015 22:29:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-help-doesnt-work-for-some-locales/31350/3 "2015-08-19T22:29:22Z")

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I did look into this issue. This seems to be a problem with the localization fallback.  
The translation is available, but it looks like `I18n.exists?` doesn’t use the fallback.

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/d37c2a2c98a83eb65b7fe520a8ffcdddc1207299/app/controllers/static_controller.rb#L39-L42>

@riking I’m not sure how to solve this. Can you please take a look at this?

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