{"id":1106,"date":"2020-07-08T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/translate-using-xml-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T05:09:07","slug":"translate-using-xml-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/translate-using-xml-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Translate Using XML in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is a general observation that customers prefer viewing online content, especially when it comes to E-commerce, in their native languages. And why not! Online visitors are very impatient. So offer them what they love, what is easily readable, and content that they can grasp quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, as\u00a0Magento 2\u00a0is a worldwide popular platform used by online businesses in multiple languages, translating the store\u2019s content is inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translating the store\u2019s content can lead to more sales because international customers can better understand the product details and can relate to your business on a higher level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if you have tried translating using CSV but failed, you probably missed a step. And that\u2019s why you need to follow this method to translate using XML in Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Method to translate using XML in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a Magento developer, it is a common practice for translating words through .csv<\/strong> file located at<\/p>\n\n\n\n

app\/code\/Vendor\/Extension\/i18n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just add i18n folder<\/strong> in custom extension and in that, create .csv file with a translation of words like \u201cClick Here\u201d, \u201cKlik hier\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observe that, the name of CSV starts with language name like en_US.csv, ar_SA.csv etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite following these steps, if some words are not translating in your store, then probably you might have missed, as shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to translate \u201ccity\u201d field in dutch language from English and you\u2019ve passed that field like below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<item name=\"label\" xsi_type=\"string\" >City<\/item><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
In CSV file you\u2019ve done every step perfectly like \u201ccity\u201d, \u201cstad\u201d but word city is not translating then once check your XML file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The correct method, which you have forgotten is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<item name=\"label\" xsi_type=\"string\" translate=\"true\">City<\/item><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adding translate=\u201dtrue\u201d<\/code> <\/strong>is what you had skipped but not after following this post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yeah\u2026let me remind you to use echo __(\u2018your word\u2019)<\/code> in phtml file too  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019re looking for the method to translate JS error message or text In Magento 2<\/a> then visit our blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are Switching to an Arabic store or changing the store view to Arabic changes and want to Change Price Decimal Separator<\/a> for Arabic Store in Magento 2 Read our blog. Do share the tutorial with fellow Magento developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is a general observation that customers prefer viewing online content, especially when it comes to E-commerce, in their native languages. And why not! Online visitors are very impatient. So offer them what they love, what is easily readable, and content that they can grasp quickly. Now, as\u00a0Magento 2\u00a0is a worldwide popular platform used by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}