Great for the clarification - it helped my situation and I could come to an conclusion on how to proceed. I only use Danish as language - and I transferred all my products from a previous solution based on Prestashop to a new Shopify solution. The old Prestashop solution was also in Danish. I wasn't aware of this situation/problem with the default language in Shopify - if I should started all over with Shopify, I would have changed default language before transferring my products. After the import of all my products, the problem was that I had the default language (English) and all my content in Danish, but in the English language layer. When making changes to the Danish in the English language layer, I had to go and "translate" it into to the Danish language layer. In order to avoid this mix-up - I finally changed my default language to Danish after seeing your video. It seemed to go well - now I can make changes to Shopify without having to go to translations. Again, thank you for clearing this out and demoing the process.
I want to ask. What happens if I have set English as default language on shopify, but the whole page is written in Slovak and I want to change the default language to Slovak ? .... the only thing I have in English are buttons like " add to cart ', ' including tax ' ..... as long as all pages are written in Slovak (even product descriptions, everything ). So if I change it to Slovak now -> will it change only what is not in Slovak yet ? do I understand it well ?
It's a big headache setting up a store with the deafault language not English. It's even worse for the languages as Ukrainian that don't have Shopify's translations, similar to Afrikan on this video. I've spent 2 weeks and still not totally happy with the result. It just started looking not so dark as yesterday. But it takes so much time and nerves for experiments. Official guides don't mention anything that Markets can have a different Default language than Languages menu.
I want to ask. What happens if I have set default English on shopify but the whole page is written in Slovak and I want to change the default language to Slovak ? .... the only thing I have in English are the buttons like " add to cart ", " tax included " ..... as far as all pages are written in Slovak language (also product descriptions, just everything ). I would be glad if someone could answer my question as soon as possible .... I would not like to lose everything. Thanks
Some languages don't have default content which is what you are referring too. In that case if you set such a language as default and there is no default language it will fall back to English which is what you are seeing. If you go to the online store you'll be able to edit those string. You can also search for then in Translate & Adapt but it will not let you edit default content in Translate & Adapt because default appears in the respective locations in the shopify admin
Did I understand correctly that when I set the default language to something other than English, then I need to write all my product descriptions, sections, and anything else in this other language and then add English translations for them? So basically, do everything opposite to get correct result? Because now if I add my products and everything in English and then make other language as default, then feels like it messes many parts up. And also, this causes another problem - when user that wants to see the site in the other language from other country, it will then show incorrectly as well.
In the admin it will tell you if there are existing strings in shopify for that language. currently there are 34 languages that have strings. That is mainly for theme, checkout, emails etc. In different languages there are different strings at times. If you have a language set as default you should have all the content of your products, sections etc in that language. otherwise, for example translation apps won't work because it'll try to translate x>y but actually it's input will not be x it will be z.
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Thank you, very important and informative.
Great for the clarification - it helped my situation and I could come to an conclusion on how to proceed.
I only use Danish as language - and I transferred all my products from a previous solution based on Prestashop to a new Shopify solution. The old Prestashop solution was also in Danish.
I wasn't aware of this situation/problem with the default language in Shopify - if I should started all over with Shopify, I would have changed default language before transferring my products.
After the import of all my products, the problem was that I had the default language (English) and all my content in Danish, but in the English language layer. When making changes to the Danish in the English language layer, I had to go and "translate" it into to the Danish language layer.
In order to avoid this mix-up - I finally changed my default language to Danish after seeing your video.
It seemed to go well - now I can make changes to Shopify without having to go to translations.
Again, thank you for clearing this out and demoing the process.
I want to ask. What happens if I have set English as default language on shopify, but the whole page is written in Slovak and I want to change the default language to Slovak ? .... the only thing I have in English are buttons like " add to cart ', ' including tax ' ..... as long as all pages are written in Slovak (even product descriptions, everything ). So if I change it to Slovak now -> will it change only what is not in Slovak yet ? do I understand it well ?
It's a big headache setting up a store with the deafault language not English. It's even worse for the languages as Ukrainian that don't have Shopify's translations, similar to Afrikan on this video. I've spent 2 weeks and still not totally happy with the result. It just started looking not so dark as yesterday. But it takes so much time and nerves for experiments. Official guides don't mention anything that Markets can have a different Default language than Languages menu.
Please what is the Difference between "Language of the content" (see 0:45) "Language what I want that my vuyer see" (see 1:19)?
I want to ask. What happens if I have set default English on shopify but the whole page is written in Slovak and I want to change the default language to Slovak ? .... the only thing I have in English are the buttons like " add to cart ", " tax included " ..... as far as all pages are written in Slovak language (also product descriptions, just everything ). I would be glad if someone could answer my question as soon as possible .... I would not like to lose everything. Thanks
Some languages don't have default content which is what you are referring too. In that case if you set such a language as default and there is no default language it will fall back to English which is what you are seeing.
If you go to the online store you'll be able to edit those string. You can also search for then in Translate & Adapt but it will not let you edit default content in Translate & Adapt because default appears in the respective locations in the shopify admin
Did I understand correctly that when I set the default language to something other than English, then I need to write all my product descriptions, sections, and anything else in this other language and then add English translations for them? So basically, do everything opposite to get correct result? Because now if I add my products and everything in English and then make other language as default, then feels like it messes many parts up. And also, this causes another problem - when user that wants to see the site in the other language from other country, it will then show incorrectly as well.
In the admin it will tell you if there are existing strings in shopify for that language. currently there are 34 languages that have strings. That is mainly for theme, checkout, emails etc. In different languages there are different strings at times. If you have a language set as default you should have all the content of your products, sections etc in that language. otherwise, for example translation apps won't work because it'll try to translate x>y but actually it's input will not be x it will be z.
thanks