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<h1 id="multilingual-and-i18n">Multilingual and i18n</h1>
<p>The Relearn theme is fully compatible with Hugo multilingual mode.</p>
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<li>Available languages: Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese. Feel free to contribute!</li>
<li>Full support for languages written right to left</li>
<li>Automatic menu generation from multilingual content</li>
<li>In-browser language switching</li>
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<p><a href="#R-image-c9b28911c7a8089c3b5361c3dff8f1b3" class="lightbox-link"><img src="../../cont/i18n/i18n-menu.gif?width=18.75rem" alt="I18n menu" class="figure-image bg-white border lightbox noshadow" style="height: auto; width: 18.75rem;" loading="lazy"></a>
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<h2 id="basic-configuration">Basic configuration</h2>
<p>After learning <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual" target="_blank">how Hugo handle multilingual websites</a>, define your languages in your <code>config.toml</code> file.</p>
<p>For example with current English and Piratized English website.</p>
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<p>Make sure your default language is defined as the first one in the <code>[languages]</code> array, as the theme needs to make assumptions on it</p>
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<div class="wrap-code highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-toml" data-lang="toml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="c"># English is the default language</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">defaultContentLanguage</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s2">"en"</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">languages</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">languages</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">en</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s2">"Hugo Relearn Theme"</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">weight</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">languageName</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s2">"English"</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">languages</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">pir</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s2">"Cap'n Hugo Relearrrn Theme"</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">weight</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nx">languageName</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s2">"Arrr! Pirrrates"</span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>Then, for each new page, append the <em>id</em> of the language to the file.</p>
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<li>Single file <code>my-page.md</code> is split in two files:
<ul>
<li>in English: <code>my-page.md</code></li>
<li>in Piratized English: <code>my-page.pir.md</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Single file <code>_index.md</code> is split in two files:
<ul>
<li>in English: <code>_index.md</code></li>
<li>in Piratized English: <code>_index.pir.md</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
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<p>Be aware that only translated pages are displayed in menu. It’s not replaced with default language content.</p>
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<p>Use <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/#translate-your-content" target="_blank">slug</a> frontmatter parameter to translate urls too.</p>
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<h2 id="search">Search</h2>
<p>In case each page’s content is written in one single language only, the above configuration will already configure the site’s search functionality correctly.</p>
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<p>Although the theme supports a wide variety of supported languages, the site’s search via the <a href="https://lunrjs.com" target="_blank">Lunr</a> search library does not.
You’ll see error reports in your browsers console log for each unsupported language. Currently unsupported are:</p>
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<li>Czech</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Swahili</li>
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<h3 id="search-with-mixed-language-support">Search with mixed language support</h3>
<p>In case your page’s content contains text in multiple languages (e.g. you are writing a Russian documentation for your english API), you can add those languages to your <code>config.toml</code> to broaden search.</p>
<div class="wrap-code highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-toml" data-lang="toml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">params</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="nx">additionalContentLanguage</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s2">"en"</span> <span class="p">]</span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>As this is an array, you can add multiple additional languages.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that the language code required here, is the base language code. E.g. if you have additional content in <code>zh-CN</code>, you have to add just <code>zh</code> to this parameter.</p>
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<h2 id="overwrite-translation-strings">Overwrite translation strings</h2>
<p>Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme (<em>Edit</em> button, <em>Search placeholder</em> and so on). Translations are available in English and Piratized English but you may use another language or want to override default values.</p>
<p>To override these values, create a new file in your local i18n folder <code>i18n/<idlanguage>.toml</code> and inspire yourself from the theme <code>themes/hugo-theme-relearn/i18n/en.toml</code></p>
<h2 id="disable-language-switching">Disable language switching</h2>
<p>Switching the language in the browser is a great feature, but for some reasons you may want to disable it.</p>
<p>Just set <code>disableLanguageSwitchingButton=true</code> in your <code>config.toml</code></p>
<div class="wrap-code highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-toml" data-lang="toml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="p">[</span><span class="nx">params</span><span class="p">]</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="c"># When using multilingual website, disable the switch language button.</span>
</span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> <span class="nx">disableLanguageSwitchingButton</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="kc">true</span></span></span></code></pre></div>
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