# Is there multilingual support built into Rails?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 27, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724 "2009-07-27T04:57:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724/1 "2009-07-27T04:57:06Z")

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Hello group, I have just started to learn Ruby and will be on Rails  
soon. I am a PHP programmer. Just want to know if ROR has inbuilt  
multilingual support.

Regards  
Karthikeyan

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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724/2 "2009-07-27T06:02:05Z")

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Yes there is, check out -

> **[Rails Internationalization (I18n) API — Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html)**
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> Rails Internationalization (I18n) APIThe Ruby I18n (shorthand for internationalization) gem which is shipped with Ruby on Rails (starting from Rails 2.2) provides an easy-to-use and extensible framework for translating your application to a single...

and [http://rails-i18n.org/wiki](http://rails-i18n.org/wiki)

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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724/3 "2009-07-27T12:36:03Z")

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Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@karthikeyan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karthikeyan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-there-multilingual-support-built-into-rails/172724/4 "2009-07-27T15:24:04Z")

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Welcome.

2009/7/27 Karthikeyan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> > > Hello group, I have just started to learn Ruby and will be on Rails  
> > > soon. I am a PHP programmer. Just want to know if ROR has inbuilt  
> > > multilingual support.
> > 
> > > Regards  
> > > Karthikeyan

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