# When translated, use target language to identify original one

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-translated-use-target-language-to-identify-original-one/375942
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** content-localization
**Created:** [July 26, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-translated-use-target-language-to-identify-original-one/375942 "2025-07-26T09:57:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-translated-use-target-language-to-identify-original-one/375942/1 "2025-07-26T09:57:09Z")

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I count this as an UX issue:

 ![IMG_2433](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/3/6/8367d57cb720890f78d556d6a508c67c56dbc96b.jpeg)

If wanted to tell the original language there should be used same form thru whole sentence: for English speakers `in suomi` doesn’t mean anything and it should be `in Finnish`.

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-translated-use-target-language-to-identify-original-one/375942/2 "2025-07-26T11:34:16Z")

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It’s already on the to-do list

> [@Content Localization and Automatic Translations for Your Community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-and-automatic-translations-for-your-community/370000/1):
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> ### Locale selectors that make sense to you
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> Currently sitewide, we have “日本語” for Japanese in the dropdown selector. We should use “Japanese” instead when viewing it in English.

This is one of the screenshots from the [PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/33790)

 ![470430295-b7492705-5804-4427-a6d0-95e1dc7ab9c4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/4/0/e40de50c5b9832f5bf2c1c49fd86a9547ffbc894.jpeg)

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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2025, 10:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-translated-use-target-language-to-identify-original-one/375942/3 "2025-08-30T10:40:21Z")

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