How to specify language in single language mode?

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When in single language mode, Kirby seems to assume that my language always is ‘en’. A lot of plugins, which come with translations, deliver the wrong language. They show me english en- translations, while in reality i run - for example - a de-german website. I didn’t find out yet, how to say kirby to use the de-translations in that plugin.

Info: This is not a question how to set the locale in the config. The locale is just fine, i don’t want to change that. I only want to know, how to tell Kirby it’s a de-site, so it gives me the de-translations. No i don’t want to activate languages because i don’t need additional languages and i don’t want all my content files to be renamed. The site is single language.

Thanks for help.

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Are we talking Panel or frontend? In the Panel, it depends on the selected user language.

Can you name an example plugin?

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Frontend.
Example: i’d like to use a plugin for cookie disclaimer:


It comes with de and en translation. I only run a de site (single language). But the en-translation is shown. That is the same with every other plugin.
I’d like to let my kirby installation know that it is single language, but not en - it’s de and should use de from such translation situations.
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Currently, your only option is to set the I18n locale in a controller, template or, to enable it on all pages, in the page header.

Kirby\Toolkit\I18n::$locale = 'de';

See also: https://github.com/getkirby/ideas/issues/459

No idea if this has been transferred to the feedback tool yet.

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That works as expected, and is not bad as a solution.
A config parameter would be very nice, but this solution is good, too.