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Translations for Confluence Data Center/Server


Overview

With Translations for Confluence, you can add and edit content in different languages on the same Confluence page.

Language macros in the editor

Over 40 language macros available

Quick switch between languages


Documentation

Writing content in different languages

Use a specific language macro to write content in the languages supported by Confluence.

→ See all available Language Macros

Before you can start writing, first search and select your desired language macro.

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This is how the editor may look after placing your desired language macros.

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And this is how the resulting page will look like (when the user’s language is set to English).

Writing page titles in different languages

(tick) You can also translate page titles using the "Translate title" interface in the editor.

Read more here 📖

What the interface looks like.

What the resulting page looks like (when the user's language is set to German).




Administrator's Guide

As an administrator, you can enable or disable languages.

→ Go to the Administrator's Guide

Displaying content in different languages

To check if the macro works according to plan, use the drop-down in the upper-right corner and choose another language you used on that page.

If you want to change the language of the entire Confluence interface, including the main text, you'll have to change the language in your user settings.

Need help changing the language? Click here to see how it's done.

This is done as follows:

  1. Click on your profile icon in the top right corner. Choose "Settings".

  2. Click the "Edit" button.

  3. In the language dropdown, choose the language you would like to display your content in:

  4. Click the "Submit" button.

  5. Return to the page you were on before. This is easily done by clicking into the search field and selecting the first entry.
    If this page has content in the language matching your preferred language, it will now be directly displayed to you.




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