Default to EN page if a translation is not available #170

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max.mehl · 2017-09-20T10:26:52Z

max.mehl commented

2017-09-20 10:26:52 +00:00

Currently, a language version needs to be complete in order to not break relative links. Hugo only builds pages for existing files in the respective language folders in public (e.g. /fr, /el)

It would be better if we had a system like with fsfe.org where a non-existent translation always shows the EN version instead of a 404 error

I'm not sure we'll find a way to do this on our own, or whether we have to ask upstream.

Currently, a language version needs to be complete in order to not break relative links. Hugo only builds pages for existing files in the respective language folders in `public` (e.g. /fr, /el) It would be better if we had a system like with fsfe.org where a non-existent translation always shows the EN version instead of a 404 error I'm not sure we'll find a way to do this on our own, or whether we have to ask upstream.

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max.mehl commented

2018-02-26 16:17:30 +00:00

If it is not possible with Hugo, we could do this on a webserver basis. If there is a 404, the webserver should check whether there the file is available in the default (EN) version and redirect to that.

max.mehl removed the due date 0001-01-01

2018-09-28 11:58:06 +00:00

max.mehl commented

2020-05-26 09:23:07 +00:00

Gitea has an interesting script to deal with that: https://gitea.com/gitea/website/src/branch/master/scripts/trans-copy

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