Multilingual and i18n
The Relearn theme is fully compatible with Hugo multilingual mode.
It provides:
- Translation strings for default values (English, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Finnish (Suomi), French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese). Feel free to contribute!
- Support for languages written right to left
- Automatic menu generation from multilingual content
- In-browser language switching
Basic configuration
After learning how Hugo handle multilingual websites, define your languages in your config.toml
file.
For example with current English and Piratized English website.
# English is the default language
defaultContentLanguage = "en"
[Languages]
[Languages.en]
title = "Hugo Relearn Theme"
weight = 1
languageName = "English"
[Languages.pir]
title = "Cap'n Hugo Relearrrn Theme"
weight = 2
languageName = "Arrr! Pirrrates"
Then, for each new page, append the id of the language to the file.
- Single file
my-page.md
is split in two files:- in English:
my-page.md
- in Piratized English:
my-page.pir.md
- in English:
- Single file
_index.md
is split in two files:- in English:
_index.md
- in Piratized English:
_index.pir.md
- in English:
Be aware that only translated pages are displayed in menu. It’s not replaced with default language content.
Use slug frontmatter parameter to translate urls too.
Search
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.
Although the theme supports a wide variety of supported languages, the site’s search does not. You’ll see error reports in your browsers console log for each unsupported language. Currently unsupported are:
- Indonesian
- Korean
- Polish
Search with mixed language support
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 config.toml
to broaden search.
[params]
additionalContentLanguage = [ "en" ]
As this is an array, you can add multiple additional languages.
Keep in mind that the language code required here, is the base language code. E.g. if you have additional content in zh-CN
, you have to add just zh
to this parameter.
Overwrite translation strings
Translations strings are used for common default values used in the theme (Edit button, Search placeholder and so on). Translations are available in English and Piratized English but you may use another language or want to override default values.
To override these values, create a new file in your local i18n folder i18n/<idlanguage>.toml
and inspire yourself from the theme themes/hugo-theme-relearn/i18n/en.toml
Disable language switching
Switching the language in the browser is a great feature, but for some reasons you may want to disable it.
Just set disableLanguageSwitchingButton=true
in your config.toml
[params]
# When using multilingual website, disable the switch language button.
disableLanguageSwitchingButton = true