How do I set a default language for my site?

[ziyouwa]

I followed it to set as below:

base_url = "https://xxx.xx.xx"
title = "XXX"
description = "xxx"
author = "xxx"
generate_feed = true
compile_sass = true
minify_html = true
build_search_index = true

theme = "tabi"

default_language = "zh"

taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]

[search]
...
[link_checker]
internal_level = "warn"

[languages.zh-Hans]
title = "中文"
description = "中文"
author = "中文"
build_search_index = false
taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]

[extra]
...

but default display english. If change [languages.zh-Hans] to [languages.zh] , it show error than xxxx is specified twice. How to correctly set the default language to Chinese?

[ziyouwa]

I try to also set default_language = "zh-Hans", it show the error xxx twice specified.

[welpo]

base_url = "https://xxx.xx.xx"
title = "中文"
description = "中文"
author = "中文"
generate_feed = true
compile_sass = true
minify_html = true
build_search_index = true

theme = "tabi"

default_language = "zh-Hans"

taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]

[search]
...
[link_checker]
internal_level = "warn"

[extra]
...

[ziyouwa]

My ideal solution is using default configuration for English, and then use i18n/zh-Hans.toml and _index.zh-Hans.md and etc. for Chinese adaptation. Additionally, there could be a configuration option, like current_language, to achieve a redirect-like effect. For instance, if current_language is set to zh-Hans, accessing https://blog.site/ would automatically redirect to https://blog.site/zh-Hans. This approach allows a single codebase to accommodate various languages as the default, with the flexibility to modify this parameter as needed. I am trying to manually set the redirection temporarily to solve the problem now.

[welpo]

I don't understand your goal, sorry.

My ideal solution is using default configuration for English, and then use i18n/zh-Hans.toml and _index.zh-Hans.md

Have you tried this:

base_url = "https://xxx.xx.xx"
title = "title"
description = "description"
author = "ziyouwa"
generate_feed = true
compile_sass = true
minify_html = true
build_search_index = true

default_language = "en"

taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]


[languages.zh-Hans]
title = "中文"
description = "中文"
build_search_index = true
taxonomies = [{name = "tags", feed = true}]

When users visit your URL, they'll see the English text (articles named index.md). If they click on the world globe and choose Chinese, they'll see the Chinese Simplified text (articles named index.zh-Hans.md).

[ziyouwa]

When default_language = zh-Hans, I want to https://xxx.xx.xx refer to https://xxx.xx.xx/zh-Hans.

[welpo]

I see. That's just not how Zola works, though: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/multilingual/

It always outputs the non-default language to /lang and the default language to /