A question about the locale

[SoumyaK4]

I am unable to test my site from different locales, in all the locales I've tried with locabrowser
It's showing content in English.

The _config has lang : not set to anything right now, before it was set to en, but in both cases I'm getting all results in en.

Can someone tell me how I can make my site shown in a different language please

Thank you 🙏🏻

[SoumyaK4]

Just to be clear
I know that setting the lang in config sets that as main language, or I can specify the language at post frontmatter...
But I'm just looking for a way to test how people see ny site in other languages....
And according to goatcounter people have read my content with Korean and Russian, but I can't figure out any way of testing that myself...
Sorry for my limited knowledge 😔

[tis-starlight]

It seems that GoatCounter might be showing the language based on the browser's language setting, not necessarily indicating that the user is viewing your site in Korean or Russian.

You could try copying the specific language locale from jekyll-theme-chirpy into your site's directory, and then enable that language in your _config.yml file. This might help align the language display with your site content.

[SoumyaK4]

doing that works as I mentioned above,
but I want to check if my site is dynamically serving different locales

[tis-starlight]

I have no idea about "dynamically serving different locales", but from what I've seen, you translate the content.

[SoumyaK4]

oh I guess I had the wrong impression that people with ip at korea and browser language set to korean would get a korean version from the _data/locale.

I'll still keep this thread open for a few more days in hope that someone can give me a dynamic solution

[kungfux]

Hmm, thanks for asking @SoumyaK4. I thought it works dynamically, but I never got a chance to see it in action.

You can use Chrome DevTools / Sensors / Location to test site behavior based on locale.

Here are my observations.

The config says:

If it has the same name as one of the files in folder _data/locales, the layout language will also be changed,
otherwise, the layout language will use the default value of 'en'.
lang: en

So, if lang is not set, then en should be used by default.

If you build a website locally and check for example _site/index.html, you will find that text values are already set based on lang. Also, there are no javascript files that use files from the locale folder. So there is no dynamic language handling as far as I can see.

So if you really need it, you have to implement it from scratch.

Personally, I'm glad it's static so I can use English only everywhere, including posts. It will be a huge overhead to support multiple languages. This is too much for one person doing this as a hobby.

[SoumyaK4]

Thanks
Glad to know it's not dynamic as I want it to be only English.
Though now that I think about it, I'm stupid, Jekyll is ssg, how can it be dynamic 🙆🏻