i18n - Internationalization

Language detection

The language used for the frontend is chosen based on the user’s browser language.

If the user’s browser language is not supported, the default language (English) is used.

Supported languages

The language support is differentiated into two tiers:

Tier 1: First-class support. All translations are human-reviewed by a maintainer with native language proficiency.
Tier 2: Machine-translated

If a language you are looking for is not currently supported, please reach out to us!

Tier 1 languages

de - German
en - English

Tier 2 languages

es - Spanish
fr - French
pl - Polish

Translation strings / Theme overrides

The translation strings are stored in messages.po files in the frontend/src/locales/<LOCALE_CODE> directories.

Individual translation strings can also be overriden on a per-theme basis, to allow for customization e.g. to fit organizational branding and communication style.

To do that, create a messages.po file in the frontend/public/custom-theme/<THEME_NAME>/locales/<LOCALE_CODE> directory, and override the translation strings you want to change. For this to work, the custom theme must be present during the build process.

Only translation strings marked with the js-lingui-explicit-id comment have stable ID and are suitable for overriding.