preserve i18n locale on non-localized article page

[schlesingermatthias]

Hi, I'm having trouble getting localization to work with middleman-blog. I have a localized webpage where all pages are localized using the t() helper. I don't want to translate blog posts that's why the articles themselves are not localized. This works pretty well except that the currently used locale is lost on the non-localized article page.

On my localized blog overview page (/en/blog or /de/blog) everything works well. <%= I18n.locale %> prints en or de respectively. The articles on this page link to not localized article pages (blog/2020/03/31/my-article.html). Inside my article layout <%= I18n.locale %> always prints en even if I arrived at the page from de/blog.

Is there a way to preserve the locale on the article page?

My config:

activate :blog do |blog|
  blog.layout = "blog_layout"
  blog.permalink = "blog/:title.html"
  blog.sources = "articles/:title.html"
  blog.preserve_locale = true
end

Or another non-hacky way to use multiple locales with a single article source directory? I tried using multiple blog configs for each language but this does not work with only one source directory and I don't want to duplicate articles for every locale.

Thank you

[jubari]

@schlesingermatthias Did you find a solution for this problem? We are running to the exact same scenario.

Found a solution 5 minutes later: Seems very counter-intuitive but setting blog.preserve_locale = false actually solved the problem. Article page now correctly recognizes /de/blog/foobar as I18n.locale == :de

[markets]

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