# Stuck trying to add new locale files

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-trying-to-add-new-locale-files/65899
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 9, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-trying-to-add-new-locale-files/65899 "2017-07-09T16:07:53Z")
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### Author: ![suvla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@suvla](https://meta.discourse.org/u/suvla)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-trying-to-add-new-locale-files/65899/1 "2017-07-09T16:07:53Z")

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Hi, I’m trying to display the user interface of my installation of Discourse in a language that already has a partial translation in Transifex, but their files aren’t already in the Discourse repo.

To grab the files, I followed the instructions that there are in the [Contribute a translation to Discourse Howto](https://meta.discourse.org/t/contribute-a-translation-to-discourse/14882), specifically in the “Get translations” section: I create the `~/.transifexrc` file and added my credentials, and ran `ruby script/pull_translations.rb`. I saw that these steps put the files in their correct locations.

Then I ran:

`RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:clobber assets:precompile`

as I read in an answer to the thread “How to add a new language” (sorry, as a new user here I can’t link it).

Once finished, the locale I was trying to use did show up in the list of available locales to choose, which was great. But once I selected it as the main locale of the site in the Admin options, saved and refreshed, then I experienced exactly the same issue described in “[Uncaught ReferenceError - I18n is not defined (after upgrading 1.5 to 1.6)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uncaught-referenceerror-i18n-is-not-defined-after-upgrading-1-5-to-1-6/42334)”.

When I point the browser to my discourse installation I see basically a blank screen. If I inspect its source code I see some HTML with some strings in my selected locale, but nothing that allows me to work with it. This is what I see in the console.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/0/2060e9200cd1dd974c0c0547b7fc0487b9390ced.png)

Since then, as suggested by one of the answers, I have tried to recompile assets, rebuild the entire app, etc, multiple times but nothing of these seems to work for me.

Thank you