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They're going to have to work on the i18n. It defaulted to English but the entire page except like 3 words are in some other language.

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They are running Forgejo. The text being Dutch on the main page of https://code.overheid.nl/ is probably either because they haven’t provided any translations for the text, or maybe they even put the Dutch version in the template itself directly instead of storing it in whatever DB table Forgejo normally uses for the text.

I run a Forgejo instance too for my own use, but haven’t looked into how translation is set up as I haven’t had any need for changing any of the templates or texts that ship with Forgejo by default.

> They're going to have to work on the i18n.

You know, they could just use their own language. The link to forgejo even states: "code.overheid.nl (Dutch)"

Most government sites, especially open-source ones that want international contributors, do a decent job at internationalization. It doesn't seem like much of a reach to have that working.

> Most government sites [...] do a decent job at internationalization

This, I fear, is just a materially wrong statement.

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