Locale Packs

Uppy speaks multiple languages, English being the default. You can use a locale pack to translate Uppy into your language of choice.

List of our locale packs

Using a locale pack from npm

This is the recommded way. Install @uppy/locales package from npm, then choose the locale you’d like to use: @uppy/locales/lib/LANGUAGE_CODE.

npm i @uppy/core @uppy/locales

const Uppy = require('@uppy/core')
const German = require('@uppy/locales/lib/de_DE') // see below for the full list of locales
const uppy = Uppy({
  debug: true,
  locale: German
})

Using a locale pack from CDN

Add a <script> tag with Uppy bundle and the locale pack you’d like to use. You can copy/paste the link from the CDN column in the locales table. The locale will attach itself to the Uppy.locales object.

<script src="https://transloadit.edgly.net/releases/uppy/v1.4.0/uppy.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://transloadit.edgly.net/releases/uppy/locales/v1.6.0/de_DE.min.js"></script>

<script>
var uppy = Uppy.Core({
  debug: true,
  locale: Uppy.locales.de_DE
})
</script>

Overriding locale strings for a specific plugin

Many plugins come with their own locale strings, and the packs we provide consist of most of those strings. You can, however, override a locale string for a specific plugin, regardless of whether you are using locale pack or not. See the plugin documentation for the list of locale strings it uses (for example, here’s Dashboard).

const Uppy = require('@uppy/core')
const DragDrop = require('@uppy/drag-drop')
const Russian = require('@uppy/locales/lib/ru_RU')
const uppy = Uppy({
  debug: true,
  autoProceed: true,
  locale: Russian
})
uppy.use(DragDrop, {
  target: '.UppyDragDrop',
  // We are using the ru_RU locale pack (set above in Uppy options),
  // but you can also override specific strings like so:
  locale: {
    strings: {
      browse: 'выберите ;-)'
    }
  }
})

List of locale packs

23 Locales	NPM	CDN	Source on GitHub
Arabic Saudi Arabia	`@uppy/locales/lib/ar_SA`	`ar_SA.min.js`	✏️ `ar_SA.js`
Chinese China	`@uppy/locales/lib/zh_CN`	`zh_CN.min.js`	✏️ `zh_CN.js`
Chinese Taiwan, Province of China	`@uppy/locales/lib/zh_TW`	`zh_TW.min.js`	✏️ `zh_TW.js`
Danish Denmark	`@uppy/locales/lib/da_DK`	`da_DK.min.js`	✏️ `da_DK.js`
Dutch Netherlands	`@uppy/locales/lib/nl_NL`	`nl_NL.min.js`	✏️ `nl_NL.js`
English United States	`@uppy/locales/lib/en_US`	`en_US.min.js`	✏️ `en_US.js`
Finnish Finland	`@uppy/locales/lib/fi_FI`	`fi_FI.min.js`	✏️ `fi_FI.js`
French France	`@uppy/locales/lib/fr_FR`	`fr_FR.min.js`	✏️ `fr_FR.js`
German Germany	`@uppy/locales/lib/de_DE`	`de_DE.min.js`	✏️ `de_DE.js`
Greek Greece	`@uppy/locales/lib/el_GR`	`el_GR.min.js`	✏️ `el_GR.js`
Hungarian Hungary	`@uppy/locales/lib/hu_HU`	`hu_HU.min.js`	✏️ `hu_HU.js`
Indonesian Indonesia	`@uppy/locales/lib/id_ID`	`id_ID.min.js`	✏️ `id_ID.js`
Italian Italy	`@uppy/locales/lib/it_IT`	`it_IT.min.js`	✏️ `it_IT.js`
Japanese Japan	`@uppy/locales/lib/ja_JP`	`ja_JP.min.js`	✏️ `ja_JP.js`
Persian Iran, Islamic Republic of	`@uppy/locales/lib/fa_IR`	`fa_IR.min.js`	✏️ `fa_IR.js`
Portuguese Brazil	`@uppy/locales/lib/pt_BR`	`pt_BR.min.js`	✏️ `pt_BR.js`
Russian Russian Federation	`@uppy/locales/lib/ru_RU`	`ru_RU.min.js`	✏️ `ru_RU.js`
Serbian Serbia (Cyrillic)	`@uppy/locales/lib/sr_RS_Cyrillic`	`sr_RS_Cyrillic.min.js`	✏️ `sr_RS_Cyrillic.js`
Serbian Serbia (Latin)	`@uppy/locales/lib/sr_RS_Latin`	`sr_RS_Latin.min.js`	✏️ `sr_RS_Latin.js`
Spanish Greenland	`@uppy/locales/lib/es_GL`	`es_GL.min.js`	✏️ `es_GL.js`
Spanish Spain	`@uppy/locales/lib/es_ES`	`es_ES.min.js`	✏️ `es_ES.js`
Swedish Sweden	`@uppy/locales/lib/sv_SE`	`sv_SE.min.js`	✏️ `sv_SE.js`
Turkish Turkey	`@uppy/locales/lib/tr_TR`	`tr_TR.min.js`	✏️ `tr_TR.js`

Contributing a new language

If you speak a language we don’t yet support, you can contribute! Here’s how you do it:

Go to the uppy/locales directory in the Uppy GitHub repo.
Go to en_US.js and copy its contents, as English is the most up-to-date locale.
Press “Create new file”, name it according to the language_COUNTRY format, make sure to use underscore _ as a divider. Examples: en_US, en_GB, ru_RU, ar_AE. Variants should be trailing, e.g.: sr_RS_Latin for Serbian Latin vs Cyrillic.
Paste what you’ve copied from en_US.js and use it as a starting point to translate strings into your language.
When you are ready, save the file — this should create a PR that we’ll then review 🎉 Thanks!

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