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How to Extend a List of Languages in Magento 2

Aug 9, 2018

2583 Oleg Semenov

How to Extend a List of Languages in Magento 2

Sometimes you may not find the neccesary language while localizing your website. Here is a short step-by-step tutorial to help you with this issue.

Magento 2 is a multilingual system. It used ResourceBundle for working with locales and had all the locales available in the ICU library.

 

How to extend language list in Magento 2

But for some unknown reasons this list is limited. The limitations are located in Magento\Framework\Locale\Config in the _allowedLocales property. Magento 2 uses the getAllowedLocales public function for getting the list of locales.

 

Adding an unavailable language

First of all, create a plugin:

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Then enable the plugin in the di.xml file:


After that, we need to run the bin/magento setup:upgrade for applied plugin command in the console.

Here is what we will see as a result:

How to extend language list in Magento 2

That’s it, now you have the necessary language on the list.

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4 Comments

  1. HI,

    I did follow your post and it seems to work, BUT, when I wanna to deploy to production mode, it throws an exception , the message is “es_US argument has invalid value, please run info:language:list for list of available locales “, can you help me? what can I do?

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