Title: language selection
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# language selection

 *  [ihad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ihad/)
 * (@ihad)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection/)
 * while WPLANG works OK now, I was wondering if we could take this a level further
   and add a drop down list in the admin screen (options) with possible choices,
   depending on what .mo files are found in the languages directory. The default(
   no mo file needed) would be English. Registered users could set this in their
   profile and overrule the admin setting as far as THEY are concerned (cookies/
   Session).
    Once content i18n (not realized yet) is tied into this selection process
   you’d have a truly multilingual blog. Comments, Suggestions? ai.

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 *  [Xavier Borderie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xibe/)
 * (@xibe)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection/#post-60607)
 * I’m not sure, but I think in order to achieve that idea (which is good, I think)
   we’d not proper translation teams and not people working on translations in their
   spare time.
    It’s been a while since 1.2-finale has been release, yet not avalaible
   translation are complete (most are, but not all). Including translations in the
   next release Zip would mean the developpers have to wait for/urge the translators
   to finish their translation, so that that version doesn’t ship with incomplete
   strings of text. – Err, I think I got a bit carried away on something entirely
   different 🙂 People could of course install different translation, and a menu
   to choose from would be neat – but maybe not that useful since I don’t see myself
   switching from one language to another frequently enough to requite a dedicated
   menu. – anyway, ramblings…. Have nice day.
 *  [pikey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pikey/)
 * (@pikey)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection/#post-60874)
 * I think it would be very useful, when different nationalities would be writing
   posts, editing pages, etc.
 * Is there any development on this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/language-selection/#post-60874)
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