Other / Locales
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In the config.yml
-file you can set the Locale to be used by Bolt. A locale is
a set of parameters that defines the used language, country and any special
variant preferences that are used in Bolt's frontend.
Currently, the locale settings are only used for date formatting on the Frontend and Backend of your site, but we're looking into adding localization features for other parts of the Frontend and the Backend as well.
The Locale setting is defined in the config.yml
-file like this:
locale: en_GB
As you can see, the locale consists of two parts: The language part, and the
country part. In some cases the codes are the same, like nl_NL
for
Dutch/Netherlands. In other cases they are different, like en_US
for
English/United States. Which values are supported depends on your server
settings, so you might have to try which setting works best for you. Some
common options are:
Locale Language Country
en_US English United States en US
en_GB English Great Britain en GB
it_IT Italian Italy it IT
es_ES Spanish Spain es ES
da_DK Danish Denmark da DK
de_DE German Germany de DE
el_GR Greek Greece el GR
fr_FR French France fr FR
it_IT Italian Italy it IT
nl_NL Dutch Netherlands nl NL
nb_NO Norwegian Bokmål Norway nb NO
pl_PL Polish Poland pl PL
pt_PT Portuguese Portugal pt PT
ru_RU Russian Russian Federation ru RU
sv_SE Swedish Sweden sv SE
A much longer list of possible options can be found here: List of Locales, languages and countrycodes.
Bolt's localedatetime()
function and filter uses the setting from config.yml
to
set the language for the date formatting. For an overview of the options, see
php.net's strftime page, and the documentation
section on localedatetime().
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