Set a default locale (language) with Neos Flow

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With Neos Flow, you have great possibilities when it comes to creating translatable labels and content for your application. In Flow the documentation it’s called Internationalization – I18n in short.

This is done with XLF files, a XML structured format. They are located in a folder with the identifier of the locale/language you have translated it into.

By default, the locale is set to “English” so locale labels are expected to be in a folder identified by en. If your applications main language is not English, you can change that with a setting in a Settings.yaml file.

Create or open your Settings.yaml file and enter the following to set a different locale.

Neos:
  Flow:
    i18n:
      defaultLocale: 'da'

This sets “Danish” (identified by da) as defaultLocale.