Confusion about Multilang Behavior

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I’m currently struggling with the setup of a Multilanguage site. My site should have German (de) as the Default language and English (en) as a secondary language. After adding initial content to the site I now tried to enable multilang mode and am encountering unexpected behavior:

When adding de.php and en.php manually in site/languages, my panel is now empty and no content is being shown anymore. Saving any content will now create template.de.txt content files.

I then restored everything and tried a different route, adding languages through the panel. As soon as I added German as the first (and default) language and then English as a secondary language, all my content files that were previously template.txt were renamed to template.de.txt.

Expected behaviour

content/
  site.txt     <- default language, holds previously added, german content
  site.en.txt  <- will hold translated content

actual behavior

content/
  site.de.txt   <- holds previously added, german content
  site.en.txt   <- will hold translated content

Does that mean that there is no default language in my setup anymore? Or is Kirby now also adding the language extension to content files for the default language?

I’m running Kirby 5.3.3 but have tried this with 5.3.2 and 5.2.2 as well.

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Yes, Kirby adds (and needs) the language code to all context files (has always been like that). Manually adding the php translation files can be done, but is not the recommended way, because then you have also manually rename all context files, as decribed in the docs: Multi-language | Kirby CMS

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Thanks so much for the quick replay. I could have sworn that the default language would be template.txt with additional translations becoming template.en.txt and so on.

Thanks for clearing that up für me!