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i18Next: use locale only for some languages and use language + location for rest

I have a question for the i18next library. If I have these set of locales that are possible to be detected from the browser,

de
en-US
es
fr
it
ja
ko
pt-br
zh-cn
zh-tw

Is there a way to configure it where it respects the language only for some locales and not the other? for example, when it comes to en-US, I wish for the loaded language to be en so when I call the .language or .languages method, it will contain en instead of en-US. However, for the other locales that have a dash like pt-br, zh-cn, and zh-tw, they will remain untouched, (so NOT return just zh).

Is this possible?

thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Yes, make use of the configuration options: https://www.i18next.com/overview/configuration-options

    With the load option set to "all", it will first check for "en-US" and if not found, it will use "en"... and the i18next.resolvedLanguage value will be "en"

    There are also other configuration options, like supportedLngs, or fallbackLng you could use to tune your use case.