# Some strings can't be translated
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184
**Category:** Translations
**Created:** [March 9, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184 "2019-03-09T21:23:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rlb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlb)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/1 "2019-03-09T21:23:28Z")
Hi,
I use the french translation of Discourse and I found some strings that I can’t translate in the customize part of the admin panel.
“ **Primary email** ” when you try to register an account with a blacklisted email domain.
“ **of** ” when you click on one image in a post with multiple big images to see it in full screen.
“ **to** ” and the entire list of periodicity in the _insert date_ menu.
The display of the **month** is in English in the message sent for the _new user of the month_.
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### Author:  [@rlb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlb)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/4 "2019-03-19T11:01:07Z")
I also want to point out that you **cannot change the format of a selected date** in _Advanced search_ and the _Insert date_ menu (It’s not readable for a French speaker).
 
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/5 "2019-03-20T10:05:08Z")
> [@rlb](#):
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> (It’s not readable for a french)
How is YYYY-MM-DD not readable for a 🇫🇷?
I know we mostly use DD-MM-YYYY, but I find YYYY-MM-DD easy enough to read (_I actually prefer that format, but that’s just because I’m a geek_).
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/6 "2019-03-20T10:06:16Z")
> [@rlb](#):
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> “ **to** ” and the entire list of periodicity in the _insert date_ menu.
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The **to** was made translatable by @eviltrout in
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/34b871a86c2ddff9ffd0205095a2018c336923b9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/34b871a86c2ddff9ffd0205095a2018c336923b9)
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### Author:  [@rlb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rlb)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/7 "2019-03-20T10:21:19Z")
> [@zogstrip](#):
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> How is YYYY-MM-DD not readable for a 🇫🇷?
Sorry, I mispoke. 😅 It’s readable but it can be confusing because we don’t use this format. For example:
March 9, 2019 = 2019-03-09
A french may wonder which of these numbers is the month and which is the day. I’m pretty sure my grandmother can’t read that kind of format.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/8 "2019-03-20T10:23:32Z")
> [@rlb](#):
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> A french may wonder which of these numbers is the month and which is the day.
I blame the 🇺🇸 for coming up and using the _butchered_ MM/DD/YYYY format.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/9 "2019-03-20T10:25:02Z")
Was it really the US? I would expect we inherited it from the UK like imperial units.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/10 "2019-03-20T10:25:34Z")
US/UK, is there a difference? 😉
_EDIT: looks like you’re right. The [UK did invent that format](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/68844/date-format-in-uk-vs-us) but they regained their sanity in the 20th Century thanks to the 🇪🇺._
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-strings-cant-be-translated/111184/11 "2019-04-16T15:52:14Z")
I added the missing translations for the lightbox in [UX: Add translations for lightbox · discourse/discourse@7e8579b · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7e8579b8aaf551c2b9fa5eb2044017284c6270cc).
The “Insert date” dialog should already be fully translatable.
> [@rlb](#):
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> The display of the **month** is in English in the message sent for the _new user of the month_ .
This was fixed in [New user of the month: wrong month, not localized - #5 by gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-of-the-month-wrong-month-not-localized/110868/5).
Regarding the "YYYY-MM-DD` date format: As far as I can see our datepicker always uses that format. Changing that behavior so that it shows a localized date while making sure that nothing breaks will take a little bit more time. I’ll take another look at this at a later time.