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Find a way to support hard coded headings in foreign languages
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Description
**Issue:**
There are pages in foreign languages within the CMS. See, for example, https://www.mass.gov/court-forms-information-in-spanish-formularios-e-informacion-en-espanol. There are certain phrases hard-coded in English that cannot be changed. In this example, there is:
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Did you find the information you were looking for on this page?
Other page types have other phrases, like "In this list"
Using the Translate tool doesn't work because when it translates the English on the page, it also translates the Spanish into different Spanish and makes a mess of it. Is there a way to provide translation for these page elements?
**JIRA ticket #:** DP-8900
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Research direction
Start with the Spanish CMS page linked in the issue and inventory the hard-coded phrases listed there, along with the alternate phrase used by other page types. Review how the CMS currently applies its Translate tool. Done means page elements can be translated without changing the authored Spanish content.
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- Domain
- internationalization, localization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100