# Translation for system message not being used

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-for-system-message-not-being-used/82912>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [3월 13, 2018, 4:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-for-system-message-not-being-used/82912 "2018-03-13T16:00:48Z")\
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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:** [5월 8, 2018, 3:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-for-system-message-not-being-used/82912/4 "2018-05-08T15:45:10Z")

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The bug was a little bit different from what you described:

- It always used the `default_locale` for the system message.
- It used the flagger’s locale for the flag reason.

So, in your example, the system locale was set to English and the locale of the user who flagged a post was set to German.

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[FIX: Use default locale for flag reason · discourse/discourse@badad80 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/badad80cdf4489dd687a723647091c0b6b273ae6)

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