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Helping your GitBook documentation to reach people in multiple languages. |
GitBook supports the internationalization of a space or a collection, enabling public documentation user interface elements to be translated.
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Administrators and creators can change the language of the user interface for public documentation. {% endhint %}
Currently, the supported languages are English, French, Spanish, Chinese (simplified), and Japanese.
By default, your content will have the English language selected. To change this, click customize in the space sub-navigation, go to the configure tab, and use the dropdown menu in the localize user interface setting.
Choose your preferred language for the user interface elements of your published documentation
If a space is inside a collection, you can set the localization language for that space to inherit. This will keep the space’s localization language in sync with the setting at the collection level. Choosing a different language for one space inside a collection would override the collection-level setting.
If you would like to share a different language (or product) version, you will have to publish a collection as a variant. This enables you to create a space per language and publish the collection as a unified UI, allowing readers to switch seamlessly between different language spaces.