Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Government glossary: M to R Updated Markdown page
Public-sector and Exponential terms from M to R in one to three sentences each - maintenance mode, multisite, open data, open source, package, plain language, policy, processing agreement, proof of concept, records…
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Government glossary: S to Z Updated Markdown page
Public-sector and Exponential terms from S to Z in one to three sentences each - section, service level agreement, siteaccess, source code, staging, supported version, tender, total cost of ownership, two-step sign-in…
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Governments: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for public bodies that run or plan to run Exponential - ministries, regions and states, councils, agencies, libraries, schools and universities, courts, parliaments, public health and emergency…
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Languages Updated Markdown page
The languages section of the government help: serving the public in several official, minority and right-to-left languages with Exponential, from content languages and siteaccesses to switchers, fallbacks, translators…
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A siteaccess per language Updated Markdown page
How each official language of a public site gets its own siteaccess in Exponential: the RegionalSettings that decide content, interface and fallback, registering and matching the siteaccess, sharing one design, and…
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Adding a content language Updated Markdown page
Step by step for administrators: add a content language in Setup > Languages, what adding does and does not do, the custom option for a locale that is not in the list, and the next steps before visitors see anything.
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Administration interface languages Updated Markdown page
Which languages the Exponential administration is translated into, how complete each translation is according to the project's own measurements, which ones are machine-assisted, how staff choose their language, and how…
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Always available content Updated Markdown page
What the "always available" flag of an object does in a multilingual Exponential site, which items should carry it (logos, media folders, users, documents in one language), how to set it per object and per class, and…
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Content languages and interface languages Updated Markdown page
The two kinds of language in Exponential, explained for public bodies: content languages (what pages are written in) and interface languages (what the administration and the site's fixed texts speak), where each is set…
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Custom locales for unlisted languages Updated Markdown page
How to add a language Exponential does not ship a locale for: write share/locale/<code>.ini with names, HTTP tag, direction, formats and day and month names, choose the code, add it as a custom content language, and…
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Dates, numbers and currency per language Updated Markdown page
How each language version of an Exponential site writes dates, times, numbers and amounts (from the locale file of the siteaccess), how to check and adjust a locale, and the known limits (one time zone per siteaccess, a…
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Fallback rules for untranslated content Updated Markdown page
What a visitor of one language version sees when a page is not translated yet, how SiteLanguageList order, ShowUntranslatedObjects and always available decide it, and the policy choices a public body makes for each…
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Glossaries of terms Updated Markdown page
How to keep a public glossary and an internal terminology list in several languages with Exponential: a term class with a translation per language, a glossary page, linking terms from content, tags with synonyms for…
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HTML language tags and accessibility Updated Markdown page
How the language of a page and of parts of a page reaches browsers and screen readers on an Exponential site (BCP 47 tags from the locale files, the lang attribute in the pagelayout, lang and dir on content in another…
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Indigenous languages of the Americas Updated Markdown page
How to publish in an Indigenous language of the Americas with Exponential: the 22 locales that ship (Alaska Native languages, Navajo, Cherokee, Lakota, Ojibwe, Cree, Inuktitut, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Maya, Guarani, Aymara and…
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Interface translation fallbacks Updated Markdown page
How Exponential decides which interface translation a locale shows when it has none of its own (configured fallbacks, rules, the automatic same-language fallback), how to see the chain with exp:i18n and Setup >…
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Language addresses: path or host Updated Markdown page
How to give each language of a public site its own address in Exponential (a path such as /fr/, a host such as fr.example.gov, or both), the matching settings for each, and how to choose for a public body.
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Languages at a glance Updated Markdown page
What Exponential offers a public body that serves people in several languages: content languages, a siteaccess and address per language, fallbacks, translator roles, right-to-left scripts, interface translations, and…
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Languages checklist Updated Markdown page
One checklist for a multilingual public site on Exponential, from language policy and setup to translators, accessibility, search and yearly review, linking the page of this section that explains each item.
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Main language of an item Updated Markdown page
What the main language of an item is in Exponential, why it matters for fallbacks and removal, how to change it in the Translations tab, and how to choose it in a site with several official languages.