lion/packages/localize/docs/40-google-translate-integration.md
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Google Translate integration

export default {
  title: 'Localize/Google Translate Integration',
};

When Google Translate is enabled, it takes control of the html[lang] attribute. Below, we find a simplified example that illustrates this.

The problem

A developer initializes a page like this (and instructs localize to fetch data for en-US locale)

<html lang="en-US"></html>

If Google Translate is enabled and set to French, it will change html[lang]: to <html lang="fr">

Now localize will fetch data for locale fr. There are two problems here:

  • There might be no available data for locale fr
  • Let's imagine data were loaded for fr. If Google Translate is turned off again, the page content will consist of a combination of different locales.

How to solve this

To trigger support for Google Translate, we need to configure two attributes

<html lang="en-US" data-localize-lang="en-US"></html>
  • html[data-localize-lang] will be read by localize and used for fetching data
  • html[lang] will be configured for accessibility purposes (it will makes sure the page is accessible if localize would be lazy loaded).

When Google Translate is set to French, we get: <html lang="fr" data-localize-lang="en-US">

The page is accessible and localize will fetch the right resources