# What exactly are the effects of "allow user locale"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-are-the-effects-of-allow-user-locale/58348
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** discobot, multi-lingual
**Created:** [2017 年 3 月 4 日午後 2:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-are-the-effects-of-allow-user-locale/58348 "2017-03-04T14:05:07Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [2017 年 7 月 1 日午後 1:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-exactly-are-the-effects-of-allow-user-locale/58348/19 "2017-07-01T13:59:57Z")

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> [@tgxworld](#):
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> this isn’t specific to just the bot, you can customize an email template and you’ll be faced with the same problem.

True, I just focused on the bot because that’s the problem I’m currently facing and which I thought is most likely relevant to many sites because I assume that most will customize the bot’s first message (although the need for this could be reduced if it were possible to [have the bot _plus_ a welcome email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-welcome-email-in-addition-to-the-bot-welcome-message/63603)).

> [@tgxworld](#):
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> What I think the right fix here is that if you customize a translation of the default site locale, all the other locales should treat its corresponding translation text as missing

Excellent idea! I might add: treat as missing _unless the corresponding copy has also been customized_.

The extra benefit of this solution would also be that it facilitates complaint driven improvement of discourse sites: “Why is X being shown in English when everything else is in my preferred language?” -  
"It’s because we don’t speak all languages. Could you give us a translation and we’ll fix it. "

I fact, one could even add a mouse-over hint or something like that, encouraging users to submit their translation. If your suggested fix gets implemented, could you make sure those fallback texts get their own class?

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