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Active set to true, so the language is visible in the language selector on the frontpage.

Validating your file with the json5 validator

If you have the DSpace 7 UI running locally, including the yarn tooling to start it up, there is a handy command line tool to validate your new translation. For example, to validate the Spanish file "es.json5", you can execute:

yarn json5 --validate ./resources/i18n/es.json5

Examples of possible errors you might get:

JSON5: invalid character 'R' at 1574:179

1574 indicates the line number, and 179 is the 179th character on that line.

This particular mistake occurred where there was an extra space between \ and " in the \" combination used to escape the "

Developer i18n How-to

When you create new keys, update existing keys or the meaning of existing messages, keep the following in mind.

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