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Joan Yin
Joan Yin

Reputation: 81

angular-translate didn't attempt to use the fallback language if the preferred language failed to load

When using angular-translate to localize my Angular app, the fallback language is not attempted if the preferred language (via static file loader) failed to load or doesn't exist for any reason. 

$translateProvider.useStaticFilesLoader({
    prefix: 'locale-',
    suffix: '.json'
});
$translateProvider
    .preferredLanguage('ja')
    .fallbackLanguage('en');

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If there is an empty locale-ja.json file, then the fallback is loaded correctly. This as pointed out might be a library bug. Has anyone found a workaround?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2973

Answers (2)

Zuzu Softman
Zuzu Softman

Reputation: 498

Currently stumbled upon the same problem, and the only way I can solve it is by adding $translateProvider.use() option. so it would look like this:

 $translateProvider
    .preferredLanguage('ja')
    .use('ja')
    .fallbackLanguage('en');

Upvotes: 0

tlumko
tlumko

Reputation: 164

FallbackLanguge function have another purpose - if a translation-table doesn't have a specific key, the translation from the fallback language will be used. If you want to specify default language, you can use wildcard in registerAvailableLanguageKeys function:

.registerAvailableLanguageKeys(['en, da'], {
    'en_US': 'en',
    'en_UK': 'en',
    'da_DK': 'da',
    '*': 'en'
})

In this example 'en' is the default language. It will load if the preferred language doesn't exist.

Upvotes: 4

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