FEATURE: Populate Non-Translated Articles with Default Language; Add "Page Not Translated" Banner

[pacollins]

I am reading through the hugo functions and noticed lang.Merge which allows you to populate any non-translated articles with the default language:

--en
|---1.md
|---2.md
|---3.md
--fr
|---1.md.fr
|---2.md.fr
|---3.md <==English article

Any thoughts on this? A site that loses content when you change languages is odd, but so is thinking everything is translated.

[VincentTam]

Between the two options, I would prefer the having untranslated contents first. Interested users might report them in the issues or, even better, submit a PR. In Beautiful Hugo's UI text for its Staticman integration, the developer who submitted the PR had copied the English UI text into i18n files for some other languages at first. Despite the missing content, the framework has been established. This gives way to my PR https://github.com/halogenica/beautifulhugo/pull/231/files.

[pacollins]

Another option would be to create something like this at the top of the page (not real syntax here):

{{ if not .Page.Lang .Site.Lang }}
    {{ i18n | "Hello user, this page has yet to be translated into your language." }}
{{ end }}

And maybe allow that to link to make PRs, like you suggest.

[quancs]

Hi, I met the same problem, and need this feature also. Is there any update for this feature now? Or is there anything I can help