Template:LangSwitch
Goal
This template will show texts in different languages depending on the language of the page it is placed on.
It is mainly meant for translation of contents within templates so that a single template can be used in pages of different languages, rather than having to be translated with one template for each language.
The language the text will be shown in depends on the two letter language code between the page namespace and the page title, for example Talk:De/HB Radio-NAV. If a parameter with a text is not available in the language of the page or is empty, the English text will be shown instead provided it is available.
Usage
The parameters of this template corresponds to the ISO 639-1 two letter language code for the language to be used in that parameter.
For testing and demonstration purposes the named parameter lang= can be used to select a different language than the language of the page the template is used on.
{{LangSwitch |de= |en= |es= |fr= |nl= |ru= |lang=}}
{{LangSwitch
|de =
|en =
|es =
|fr =
|nl =
|ru =
|lang =
}}
Using the lang parameter
For testing and demonstration purposes the the lang parameter can be used to override the automatic language selection.
<!-- Caveat: Google translated -->
{{LangSwitch
|de = Hallo Welt!
|en = Hello World!
|es = ¡Hola Mundo!
|fr = Bonjour tout le monde!
|nl = Hello World!
|ru = Привет мир!
|lang = fr
}}
Bonjour tout le monde!
Examples of language codes
| ISO 639-1
two letter code |
English name of language |
|---|---|
| ca | Catalan |
| de | German |
| en | English |
| es | Spanish |
| fa | Farsi |
| fi | Finnish |
| fr | French |
| nl | Dutch |
| pl | Polish |
| pt | Portugese |
| ru | Russian |
| sv | Swedish |
| zh | Chinese |
Known issues
Using equal signs inside template parameters will break the template. Two ways around this is to either use {{=}} or <nowiki>=</nowiki>.