Problem/Motivation

To translate interface text, configuration content, and entity content in a specific render context is difficult. To accomplish this, you must change the site's default language, set the config override, and modify the default langcode on the translation service.

+        $this->languageDefault->set($language);
+
+        $this->languageManager->setConfigOverrideLanguage($language);
+        $this->languageManager->reset();
+
+        $string_translation = $this->getStringTranslation();
+        if ($string_translation instanceof TranslationManager) {
+          $string_translation->setDefaultLangcode($language->getId());
+          $string_translation->reset();

Proposed resolution

The LanguageManagerInterface should have a "setLanguage" method (or other naming) which streamlines this task.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

Comments

mglaman created an issue. See original summary.

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johnv’s picture

johnv
Primary language Dutch
commented
Component: base system » transliteration system
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Not sure what the use case is here.

To interface the User translation text, you can
- install locale (Interface translation) module
- goto admin/config/regional/translate
- set the target language, to be able to the new language.

Or, for the others,
switch from default language '/node/8/edit' to target language '/nl/node/8/edit'
having set up /admin/config/regional/language/detection properly.

But, 5 years have past.
Settings this to outdated.

flocondetoile’s picture

flocondetoile
Primary language French
Location Lyon
commented
Status: Closed (outdated) » Active

I believe this issue is still relevant.
The use case is to change programmatically the language in order to translate something in another language. An example as a use case is how Drupal Commerce send Email Order Receipt, given the preferred language of a customer.

See https://git.drupalcode.org/project/commerce/-/blob/8.x-2.x/src/MailHandl...

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flocondetoile
Primary language French
Location Lyon
commented
Priority: Normal » Minor
johnv’s picture

johnv
Primary language Dutch
commented

Then this issue seems like the same (duplicate) feature request? #2350907: Create simple helper function to add a string translation programatically

Adding the word 'programmatically' already helps the reader.

johnv’s picture

johnv
Primary language Dutch
commented

And this issue marks the problem as a bug: #3393852: TranslatableMarkup does not seem to use current but rather default language

sleitner’s picture

sleitner commented
Component: transliteration system » language.module
sleitner’s picture

sleitner commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#2410579: Allow to change the current language

Duplicate of #2410579: Allow to change the current language