AEM Multilingual Contents in Sightly

AEM Multilingual Contents in Sightly

There are two ways one can configure multilingual contents on AEM using Multisite Management.

1. Blueprints
2. Language Copy

A blueprint is the source for creating multiple contents with the same format. Say for example we have a site in English, French and German. All these sites have similar contents in three different languages. We can configure blueprint keeping English site as the source and create French and German live copies. Now there should be dictionaries configured as per https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/components/i18n/translator.html

To enable the multilingual contents  your sightly pages to use the content key as follows.

${'your_internationalization_key_as_per_i18n_file' @ i18n}
Here the locale/language is selected as per the language of contents

${'your_internationalization_key_as_per_i18n_file' @ i18n, source='user'}
In this syntax the language is selected from the browser setting of the user.

${'your_internationalization_key_as_per_i18n_file' @ i18n, locale='de'}
In this syntax  the language is de (German) taken from the locale value assigned.