Language Switcher

This feature is available in Refined for Jira Service Management Data Center version 3.0 and up.

Add a language switcher to the category menu to let users read your content in their preferred language. Your site’s language automatically matches the language in the user’s profile. Clicking a language in the switcher reloads the page and sets the new preferred language for that user.

You can add a language switcher to sites, categories or portals.

What is translated?

Location

Description

Location

Description

Jira text

If Jira supports the language a users switches to, Jira texts are updated automatically. If Jira does not support the language, install a language pack and ensure you’ve translated portal-related strings in the project’s Language support.

Jira Service Management requests

To translate JSM portal names, request types, request type fields, and descriptions, go to the service project admin section under Language support for Jira 8.16 and newer. Read more.

Refined features

To translate the Refined site and site structure, landing page layout, footer, modules and more, use the Custom text variables & Dictionary feature.

Add a language switcher

The language switcher automatically appears when you add one or more languages in Refined Administration > the Languages tab. Click the + Add language button and select a language from the list. You can manually add languages that are not in this list by entering a language ISO code.

Supported languages

We support the languages Jira offers out of the box, as well as Vietnamese and Portuguese (Portugal): see the list below for details. Is your language not on this list? Contact us.

Language

ISO code

Note

Language

ISO code

Note

Chinese Simplified

(zh_CN)

 

Chinese Traditional

(zh_TW)

 

Czech (Czech Republic)

(cs_CZ)

 

Danish (Denmark)

(da_DK)

 

Dutch (Netherlands)

(nl_NL)

 

English (UK)

(en_UK)

Invalid locale but would be equivalent to en_GB

English (United States)

(en_US)

Default language

German (Germany)

(de_DE)

 

Estonian (Estonia)

(et_EE)

 

Finnish (Finland)

(fi_FI)

 

French (France)

(fr_FR)

 

Hungarian (Hungary)

(hu_HU)

 

Icelandic (Iceland)

(is_IS)

 

Italian (Italy)

(it_IT)

 

Japanese (Japan)

(ja_JP)

 

Korean (Korea)

(ko_KR)

 

Norwegian Bokmål

(no_NO)

Also listed as Norwegian (Norway). Would be equivalent to nb or nb_NO

Polish (Poland)

(pl_PL)

 

Portuguese (Brazil)

(pt_BR)

 

Portuguese (Portugal)

(pt_PT)

Not natively supported by Atlassian - you’ll need to install a Jira language pack.

Romanian (Romania)

(ro_RO)

 

Russian (Russia)

(ru_RU)

 

Slovak (Slovakia)

(sk_SK)

 

Spanish (Spain)

(es_ES)

 

Swedish (Sweden)

(sv_SE)

 

Vietnamese (Vietnam)

(vi_VN)

Not natively supported by Atlassian - you’ll need to install a Jira language pack.

Custom translations, wordings and phrases

This feature is available in version 3.2 and up.

Take the language switcher to the next level by using text variables to add your own translations, wordings and phrases.

Want to learn more?

Read Atlassian’s documentation: Jira Service Management internationalisation.

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