default-lang logic

[domhaas]

I'm a bit confused about the language settings:
I have two languages: de,en - de should be the default language.

Everything works so far, but when I look at the context info for a page, ‘de’ is shown in red, although this is actually the default language.

This is confusing for my customer because he thinks something is missing in the translations.

Config:

languages:
  supported:
    - de
    - en
  default_lang: null
  include_default_lang: false
  include_default_lang_file_extension: false
  translations: true
  translations_fallback: true
  session_store_active: false
  http_accept_language: false
  override_locale: false
  pages_fallback_only: false
  debug: false

There are two files per folder:
default.md
default.en.md

If I change the settings and create a default.de.md, then ‘de’ is green but the default language is red.

Not any better.

Thanks for a quick tip.

[pamtbaau]

I'm a bit confused about the language settings

You might be right...

AFAIK, *.md does not represent the default language, it is a fallback when the default language is not available as fallback for other languages. This behaviour can be overridden by setting custom language fallbacks using languages.content_fallback in /user/config/system.yaml
If there is no page for the default language and no *.md page, a 404 will be returned.

The colour of the languages indicates if for a supported language and *.md a dedicated file is available.

Let's assume the following supported languages [de, fr, en].

• 'de' is the default language, or the primary fallback language.
• If for some page, there is no *.de.md, the secondary fallback will be *.md.

Consider the following files:

/typography
  /default.md
  /default.de.md

• Both 'fr' and 'en' will fallback to the default language: *.de.md
• 'de' will show *.de.md
• *.md is not being used, because the default language is available

Now consider the following files:

/typography
  /default.md
  /default.fr.md

• 'de' will fallback to *.md
• 'fr' will show *.fr.md
• 'en' will fallback to *.md

Hope this helps...

[domhaas]

@pamtbaau Thank you very much! Yeah it seems that this is some kind of "technical correct" but on the enduser-side a little bit confusing.

Maybe I'm going to create a merge-request for that. Thinking of something like that: