Locales default language

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Hello,

I am suggesting the following for localizing entries:

  • Instead of using ‘default’ rename it to English and make option to choose default language in locales settings.

  • Return back the old translation drop-down instead of hiding and showing translation in entry page, its not practical when you have many languages and confusing the users.

Best Regards.

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  1. Goto Settings > Locales and create a locale with i18n = default and name=English

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  1. The new language UI was introduced because of the feedback of people who do translation on a daily basis. they don’t want to switch back and forth while translating content. But you can’t please everyone I guess :wink:
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thank you for responding

1- keeping it default then i need to put extra code in client side to set the default language when calling api and sometimes i need to use other languages rather than English and i need to use language code instead of checking the language name.

2- you are right but they can use the copy button :grin:, but maybe we would need different approach like Directus do.

thank you again.

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Yes, it would be nice to be able to assign a i18n code to default.

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Agreed, but you can just replace the string “default” on frontend if needed for display or things like county flag image fetching.

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