How to set the default language to German (DE) in the hugo-book theme?

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How can I set the default language to German (DE) in the hugo-book theme?

I tried the following in the config.toml but the language page still shows the English version first and the user has to switch to German manually.

defaultContentLanguage = 'de'

[languages]

[languages.de]
  languageName = 'German'
  contentDir = 'content.de'
  weight = 1


[languages.en]
  languageName = 'English'
  contentDir = 'content.en'
  weight = 2
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Try

defaultContentLanguage = 'de'

[languages]
[languages.de]
   languageName = 'German'
   languageCode = "de-de"
   contentDir = 'content/de'
  weight = 1

[languages.en]
  languageName = 'English'
  languageCode = "en-gb"
  contentDir = 'content/en'
  weight = 2

shall work, as Book theme do not specify language by default.

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I tried this, but unfortunately it still loads the English website first, because English is now placed to example.com and German is in example.com/de
I uploaded the complete source to GitHub - TroLUG/trolug-hugo: TroLUG homepage sources for hugo if someone from the future reads this, we are now at this commit:
try to fix default language · TroLUG/trolug-hugo@4d001e0 · GitHub

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Mmh, your mentiond commit has no english content…

Nevertheless

  • line 23 defaultContentLanguage = 'de'
    This is a toplevel entry and cannot be located after the first defined array

    Move it above line 12. I would suggest to place it after line 4

  • your default language is in a subdir
    What about setting defaultContentLanguageInSubdir to true

    This is also a top level entry

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