# Translating Hypha terminology across languages & organizations

**URL:** <https://we.hypha.app/t/translating-hypha-terminology-across-languages-organizations/167>\
**Category:** translations\
**Created:** [September 22, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://we.hypha.app/t/translating-hypha-terminology-across-languages-organizations/167 "2021-09-22T19:26:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://we.hypha.app/t/translating-hypha-terminology-across-languages-organizations/167/6 "2021-09-23T17:38:31Z")

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What the best way to translate for an organization is something I’m trying to figure out right now.

I’ve made en\_ARDC as a locale in our fork, which works and is better than what we’ve been doing, which is to maintain modifications to the main English django.po file, but it feels a little bit like a misuse of the locale codes and I wonder what happens if we wanted to have a distinction between en\_GB and en\_US, say (I noticed “programme” on some slides at the adopters meeting the other day).

According to the Django docs, looks like I could also do those overrides in a Django app, (e.g. hypha.ardc) which would give us some flexibility on the order they’re applied (after en\_XX) and keeps a 1-to-1 match to locale names (so, the ARDC locales would just be named “en” and “es” etc.), but I haven’t investigated how to integrate that with Weblate or settled on exactly where to put it.

Unless I was mistaken, there appeared to be some interest from ARDC in non-English languages at the meeting, so I assume we’re going to want to make their custom vocabulary translatable into other languages.

I’m posting here because I’m interested in how others will solve the same issue.

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