Numbers not being translated

[Hart_Storm]

I am making a bilingual site. All numbers stay in Arabic numerals, even for translated pages. My language has its own set of symbols that I sure can use when making the ..md pages. But numerals in dates remain the same. I would like them to be in the other language’s script for all purposes and uses.

Is there any feature in Hugo that I may have missed? I did look around in the documentation and asked ChatGPT. I also use i18n for basic translations in the UI stuff. Is there something I can do in i18n directly, other than using static strings for dates instead of timestamps like ‘2025-07-17T13:31:02+05:30’?

[jmooring]

@Hart_Storm

Is there any feature in Hugo that I may have missed?

No. Hugo’s localization features include:

• Collation (sort order)
• Translation including pluralization via lang.Translate
• Localization of numbers, currencies, and percentages via lang.FormatAccounting, lang.FormatNumber, lang.FormatNumberCustom, lang.FormatCurrency, and lang.FormatPercent
• Localization of dates via time.Format, but this excludes conversion from one script to another (e.g., arabic <==> latin)

You might consider creating a partial that handles this, using something like this as a starting point:
https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/48010/6