Generated Languages

[cdKannegiesser]

Describe the issue

We use Weblate (version 5.6.2) hosted on our own server to manage our content and translations. We rely on XLIFF files because they can be easily exported to and imported from various applications and programming languages. During the initial setup of Weblate, a standard for language codes was defined, and we adopted formats such as de-DE, en-US, en-GB, etc.

Our current issue: Weblate keeps automatically generating new language variants (e.g., de_DE (generated), en-US (generated), en-GB (generated), etc.). I haven’t found any documentation explaining how to disable this behavior. Going forward, we’d like to use the “Add missing languages” plugin, but in combination with these auto-generated languages, our initial tests caused errors further down the workflow: files were created using an unexpected naming convention, leading to failures. We also fear there may be additional side effects.

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar filed issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

We have deleted all languages and created our own in the Stanrad described above.

Expected behavior

That no new generated languages are created in the process.

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Exception traceback

How do you run Weblate?

Docker container

Weblate versions

5.6.2

Weblate deploy checks

Additional context

No response

[nijel]

https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/languages.html#parsing-language-codes explains how language codes are parsed.