Internationalization

Configure translated content, language navigation, metadata and RTL layout.

Use Hugo’s multilingual configuration and place translated content below language directories. The example site contains complete English, German and French trees.

toml

defaultContentLanguage = "en"

[languages.en]
  label = "English"
  weight = 1
[languages.de]
  label = "Deutsch"
  weight = 2
[languages.fr]
  label = "Français"
  weight = 3

The language menu links to the current page’s translation when available and falls back to that language’s home page. Search indexes, edit links, RSS, canonical URLs, sitemaps, hreflang and llms.txt remain language-aware.

Translate interface strings in i18n/<lang>.toml. For right-to-left languages set languagedirection = "rtl"; structural rails, chevrons and menus mirror.

Keep filenames and translation keys stable across languages. Hugo then associates translations without custom template logic.