# How to explicitly tell Hugo that i18n support is not needed?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165>\
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**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165 "2018-09-11T16:40:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaushalmodi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/kaushalmodi/32/2567_2.png) [@kaushalmodi](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/kaushalmodi)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165/1 "2018-09-11T16:40:02Z")

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All of my sites are English-only.

Is there a way to tell Hugo to not try to find translations, etc. i.e. not try to enable i18n support?

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**Context**

When tinkering with the default stdout verbosity level in hugo source code and bumping the verbosity to show warnings too ([Ref](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5203)) (and not just errors), I get only these 3 warnings on all my sites:

```nohighlight
WARN 2018/09/11 12:26:26 No translation bundle found for default language "en"
WARN 2018/09/11 12:26:26 Translation func for language en not found, use default.
WARN 2018/09/11 12:26:26 i18n not initialized, check that you have language file (in i18n) that matches the site language or the default language.

```

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**Author:** ![bep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bep/32/3332_2.png) [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165/2 "2018-09-11T17:32:08Z")

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> [@kaushalmodi](#):
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> Is there a way to tell Hugo to not try to find translations, etc. i.e. not try to enable i18n support?

No…

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**Author:** ![zwbetz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/zwbetz/32/16088_2.png) [@zwbetz](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/zwbetz)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165/3 "2018-09-11T22:54:22Z")

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I used the solution mentioned in a previous discourse thread by @bep

> [@Monolingual site getting "no translation bundle" warnings](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/monolingual-site-getting-no-translation-bundle-warnings/6300):
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> Hi - I have a monolingual site using Hugo v.20, but I’m getting warnings like: WARN 2017/04/24 09:07:46 No translation bundle found for default language "en" WARN 2017/04/24 09:07:46 Translation func for language en not found, use default. WARN 2017/04/24 09:07:46 i18n not initialized, check that you have language file (in i18n) that matches the site language or the default language. … when running hugo server. I have had languageCode = "en-us" in my config.toml to refer to it in temp…

Create an empty file at:

```
/i18n/en.toml

```

Then add this to config.toml

```
[wordCount]
other = "{{ .WordCount }} words"

```

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**Author:** ![bep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bep/32/3332_2.png) [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-explicitly-tell-hugo-that-i18n-support-is-not-needed/14165/4 "2018-09-12T06:46:18Z")

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See [https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5203](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5203)