Internationalization (i18n)

FormKit ships with internationalization support for all of its interfaces and validation messages. Currently, FormKit supports the following languages (in the @formkit/i18n package):

• 🇨🇳 Chinese (zh) — 🙏  @myleslee
• 🇭🇷 Croatian (hr) - 🙏  @antemarkic
• 🇳🇱 Dutch (nl) — 🙏  @arjendejong12
• 🇺🇸 English (en)
• 🇫🇷 French (fr) — 🙏  @HoreKk
• 🇩🇪 German (de) — 🙏  @digitalkaoz, @tosling
• 🇮🇱 Hebrew (he) - 🙏  @Hepi420
• 🇷🇺 Russian (ru) — 🙏  @andreimakushkin

Although flags are poor representations of languages (flags indicate a geographic nation, while languages can be spoken in many ares of the world), we use the flags in the list above to indicate the location of the contributor who created that particular locale.

Using a locale

FormKit’s defaultConfig includes the english locale by default — to add an additional locale, import it from @formkit/i18n and append it to the locales option when you initialized the FormKit plugin. To set the active locale specify it with the locale option:

Changing the active locale

There are two ways to change your active locale:

• Using this.$formkit.setLocale() from the Vue plugin (best for options API).
• Directly modifying the root config object (best for composition API).

Using setLocale

When using Vue’s options API you have access to this.$formkit which contains a purpose-built method setLocale('de') which globally changes the current locale.

Using root config

When using the composition API, you won’t have access to this.$formkit. Instead, you can fetch and modify the root FormKit configuration object. This is made available globally via Vue’s inject mechanism and a unique Symbol.

Overriding

If you find a phrase in your locale isn’t worded the way you prefer, you can override those individual messages globally in your configuration. You can do this by providing a messages object to the defaultConfig.

Adding your language

Writing a locale for your own native language is a great way to contribute to FormKit, and an easy way to get started with open source too! We are always eager to see pull requests for new locales. To support this effort, we’ve created a locale builder — a small web app to help make the translation process as easy as possible.

Of course, you are not required to use our locale builder to submit a language, and are more than welcome to submit a standard pull request with your locale included.