Translates to user's local language

[bloomexperiment (Tracey)]

@Jaskaran

However, we want to allow users to choose their preferred language, such as Spanish, and have the entire page translated to that language instead.

@Jaskaran

Example:

1. A user visits a discussion thread on Discourse.
2. The original post is in English, and there are comments in various languages, including Japanese and French.
3. The user prefers to read in Spanish. They select Spanish from a language preference dropdown.
4. The entire page, including the original post and all comments, is translated into Spanish.

I set up the Discourse Translator plugin a few years ago and I’m fairly sure that it translates each topic/post to the user’s locale set in their profile settings.

Each user’s interface language is able to be set at /my/preferences/interface

e.g. https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface

So you can test with a few different locales to make sure.

On the description for that plugin, it mentions that it saves the translation for each locale for each post, which is handy when you have multiple users that have the same locale.

@Discourse

Each post is only translated once per locale which saves you

• Note that language detection is also run once for every post. Be careful when enabling this on old and large forums.

About translating the whole page: users can translate one post at a time by clicking on the translate button for each post.

The plugin won’t translate the whole page and all comments at once—since depending on the service that you set up for translation, it could cost you a lot especially if they don’t end up reading the whole page.