Hi everyone!
Does anyone know if Webflow Localizations can handle a site that localizes by country and also gives language options for each one?
I’ve got a client who needs a selector with 5 countries, and each country should have two language options.
Thanks a lot!
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Webflow’s Localization itself operates on the principle of locale, which can be a language code like en, or a language-country code like en-GB.
Suppose you were using these 10 locales;
es-CL
en-CL
es-PE
qu-PE
es-MX
en-MX
pt-BR
en-BR
en-US
es-US
You could set that up in Localization, and Pro now supports up to 10 locales, but;
I’m guessing you don’t really need the translation for en-US and en-MX to be different, so I’d probably go with one language selector and a separate location selector, and build something custom.
This way you have 5 countries, and 2 locales each, but those locales can be shared. Less cost, less admin. and you use machine-translation-supported locales like en, es, and pt-BR. In my example, Peruvian Quechua qu-PE would be the only one you’d have to hand-translate.
There’s a corollary question here which is the UX. Ideally, the user’s location would be auto-selected, as well as a default locale. That’s a bit complex to build, but in theory you could use Localization Pro’s auto routing for the language selection, and build a GeoIP solution for the country selection.
Then using custom code, you can have other country-specific things… regional special offers, regional news, etc.
