Multilanguage detect language when entering via subpage

mrflix · August 29, 2019, 12:24pm

Case:

Two languages configured: en and de.

When I visit website.com it forwards me to the correct language slug, depending on my browser language:
website.com/de or website.com/en (default language)

However if I visit a subpage url with the same slug for both languages (for example a perosnal name that doesn’t get translated) without a language slug it always forwards me to the default language version of the subpage:

With my browser language set to German, visiting website.com/famous-actor forwards me to website.com/en/famous-actor. Intended forward: website.com/de/famous-actor.

ahmetbora · August 29, 2019, 12:42pm

Language detection works on only homepage (/) as you can see in code comment on line 128

github.com

getkirby/kirby/blob/master/config/routes.php#L128-L144


    // language detection on the home page with / as URL
    if ($home && $kirby->url() !== $home->url()) {
        if ($kirby->option('languages.detect') === true) {
            return $kirby
                ->response()
                ->redirect($kirby->detectedLanguage()->url());
        } else {
            return $kirby
                ->response()
                ->redirect($kirby->site()->url());
        }


        // default home page
    } else {
        return $kirby->defaultLanguage()->router()->call();
    }
}

mrflix · August 29, 2019, 12:57pm

I saw that but I couldn’t believe that this is the intended default behavior. I understand that redirecting

example.com/en/famous-actor to example.com/de/famous-actor

might not be a good idea. But

example.com/famous-actor to example.com/[detected-language-slug]/famous-actor

would make sense, wouldn’t it? It is an edge case because a lot of slugs can be translated and translated slugs do get redirected to the correct language.

texnixe · August 29, 2019, 1:15pm

If you want to redirect all pages to their equivalent in the detected languages, you can achieve this with routes. Kirby doesn’t do this automatically.

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