fallback to default page for i18n

[alirezaalavi87]

Bug Report

for every language your site supports, for every page you MUST create a separate file for that language (https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/multilingual/)

This leads to many redundant pages in some cases.

I purpose if for a language there is no index.{code}.md zola should just fallback to index.md, and maybe show a warning instead of not creating your website at all.

for example see duckquill and how many redundant pages it has to have in itslef for no reason.

Environment

Zola version:
v0.19.2

Expected Behavior

I purpose if for a language there is no index.{code}.md zola should just fallback to index.md, and maybe show a warning instead of not creating the website at all.

[Keats]

for every language your site supports, for every page you MUST create a separate file for that language

That's not true? Only the sections require multiple files if you want them, not the pages. As for fallback, I don't think we can do it? The slug in the url might be different

[alirezaalavi87]

yes my bad, for every section we will need a new page. but still I think a fallback would be very convenient. because maybe I don't want to change some sections based on language and maintain two copies of the same page.

@Keats

[alirezaalavi87]

And for another example, checkout the gallery page in my website.link

I want the posts in my gallery to also be loaded in other languages, without copying about a hundred index.md files and renaming them to index.fa.md.

I'm not sure if this has another workaround or not, but I think the point is valid.

I think the fallback behavior should be in a way that you can include or exclude pages or sections to use fallback in config.default_language.

for example, I want all my gallery posts to fallback to index.md but not my blog posts. I want only blog posts with index.fa.md when I'm in farsi mode and index.md in english mode.

I think this is a reasonable behavior.

[alirezaalavi87]

bump?

[Keats]

How would that look like for a user? Zola would automatically generate a page for every non-default language that redirects to the default language if not present?

[alirezaalavi87]

@Keats
In my opinion, the default fallback should behave like this:

I have multiple posts in my gallery. I want those with index.fa.md to be rendered and those without it, just fallback to index.md. so zola has to render index.fa.md itself so we can have:

gallery/
    post-1/
        index.md
    post-2/
        index.md
        index.fa.md

and render

test.com/fa/gallery/post-1
test.com/fa/gallery/post-2

remember that whether we should do fallbacks to index.md or not should be a per-section option. so I want to fallback in my gallery but not in my blog

[Keats]

Seems ok to me