Get i18n string from arbitrary language (not current page's language)

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I’m trying to create a link in a template from a page in one language to a page in another language, and I want the tooltip (HTML title attribute) to use a i18n string from the language of the linked page.

In other words, the English page should show a link to the Spanish page with title="Esta página tiene una traducción en español.", while the Spanish page should show a link to the English page with title="This page has a translation in English.".

When I use {{ i18n "pageHasTranslation" }}, I get the i18n value of pageHasTranslation for the current page’s language. I want to do something like {{ i18n "pageHasTranslation" "en" }}, but that doesn’t work. Maybe I could do something like the French month names example in the docs, but I don’t know how to access my i18n TOML files in that way.

Ideas?

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I’m not sure if it is possible to do this using the i18n framework, but you can leverage the basic Hugo multilanguage facilities to achieve what you describe.

In your template:

{{ range .Translations }}
  {{ if ne .Language $.Site.Language }}
    <a href="{{ .Permalink }}" title="{{ .Site.Params.Translation" }}">{{ .Language.LanguageName }}</a> 
  {{ end }}
{{ end }}

in config.toml:

[languages]
  [languages.en]
    languageName = "English"
    translation = "This page has a translation in English."
  [languages.es]
    languageName = "Español"
    translation = "Esta página tiene una traducción en español."
  [languages.ru]
    languageName = "Русский"
    translation = "Эта страница переведена на русский язык."

For a page in English that also has versions in Spanish and Russian this template would create links to those, named “Español” and “Русский”, with appropriate title attributes.

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… but we should add a site.Translate method, if someone could create the GitHub issue.

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As in "translate this into .Site.Language"? Done.

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Well, it would work the same as calling i18n from a template in that language.

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