Issue #3622💬 AnsweredOpened July 14, 2021by ronaldohoch0 reactions

I18n functionality

Quick answerby artf

Yeah, unfortunately, at the moment the UI (once rendered) is not updating on locale changes, so you would need to rerender the editor.

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Question

Version: latest

Are you able to reproduce the bug from the demo?

  • [] Yes
  • No

What is the expected behavior? to editor.I18n.setLocale("es") work in runtime.

Describe the bug detailed I don't know if it's a bug or it's not supposed to work this way, also, i don't know backbone enough to know if it's possible, but, when use editor.I18n.setLocale("es") on run time, it doesn't change the labels.

What is the current behavior? It's just set the locale internally, but not change the labels at runtime.

Describe the bug detailed

  • I created a new plugin to pass the localization files
import cookie from './cookie';

import pt from './i18n/pt';
import es from './i18n/es';

export default (editor, opts = {}) => {
  let login_language = cookie.get("login_language");
  let language = "";
  switch(login_language){
    case "en_US": language="en"; break;
    case "es_AR": language="es"; break;
    default: case "pt_BR": language="pt"; break;
  }

  const options = { ...{
    i18n: {},
    // default options
  },  ...opts };

  var I18nManager = editor.I18n;

  // Load i18n files
  I18nManager && I18nManager.addMessages({
    ...options.i18n,
    pt,
    es
  });
  
  //change editor localization
  I18nManager.setLocale(language);
};
  • On first load, got the current locale, set right on portuguese.
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  • On set to spanish, it keeps the portuguese on first run:
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  • If i change the tab, it set the messages to spanish:
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  • And if i set it to en, we have 3 language set:
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  • Here the 3 languages
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Of course, the plugin works, if user is es, pt or en, it's setup properly. But when we will set up a new editor with plugins, we can't change the labels, or i don't know how 🤔 (This is why i've created this PR: https://github.com/artf/grapesjs-blocks-basic/pull/38)

Answers (4)

artfJuly 28, 2021

Yeah, unfortunately, at the moment the UI (once rendered) is not updating on locale changes, so you would need to rerender the editor.

ronaldohochJuly 29, 2021

Well, i don't know if backbone have template binding, so i'll close for a while..

leonardolima99May 17, 2023

Yeah, unfortunately, at the moment the UI (once rendered) is not updating on locale changes, so you would need to rerender the editor.

Has this not been solved yet? I tried to use editor.render(), it works, but it duplicates the panels...

ClaudeCodeMay 17, 2026

Thanks for reporting this, @ronaldohoch.

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