aveadev/magento-2-austrian-language-pack

Austrian German (de_AT) language pack for Magento 2. Standalone — ships its own complete de_AT.csv translation set and does not depend on aveadev/magento-2-german-language-pack.

dev-main 2026-07-15 07:52 UTC

Requires

• php: ~8.4.0||~8.3.0

proprietary

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-15 07:52 UTC

README

Austrian German (de_AT) language pack for Magento 2 — standalone.

This package ships its own complete i18n/de_AT.csv translation file. It does not depend on any other language package and does not use the <use vendor=.../> inheritance mechanism in language.xml. Installing or updating a German (de_DE) pack has no effect on it, and it has no effect on de_DE.

Why this exists

Magento's Locale setting (Stores → Configuration → General → Locale Options) drives both translation selection and number/date/currency formatting, and hreflang region codes for SEO are derived from it too. Setting the Austrian store view to the same de_DE locale as Germany produces a duplicate hreflang value across two different URLs — search engines treat that as an invalid signal for the whole cluster, not just the AT/DE pair (de-AT and de-DE are distinct IETF BCP 47 language tags for a reason: region subtag AT vs DE tells a browser or crawler these are different locales, not different copies of the same one). Giving Austria its own de_AT locale fixes that.

What's in the box

magento-2-austrian-language-pack/
├── i18n/
│   └── de_AT.csv       ← full translation set (not just overrides)
├── language.xml
├── registration.php
└── composer.json

de_AT.csv needs to contain every string the storefront and admin will render for that locale — there's no fallback to de_DE anymore, so a missing key here means untranslated English (or the raw key) on the storefront, not a silent inheritance.

Installation

composer require aveadev/magento-2-austrian-language-pack:dev-main
sudo -u www-data php bin/magento setup:upgrade
sudo -u www-data php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy de_AT
sudo -u www-data php bin/magento cache:flush

Enabling it on the Austrian store view

1. Stores → Configuration → General → Locale Options
2. Switch scope (top-left) to your Austrian store view
3. Set Locale to Deutsch (Österreich) / de_AT
4. Save, then flush cache

Verifying it

View-source a product page on omegamix.at and confirm:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-at" href="https://www.omegamix.at/..." />

...while omegamix.de still shows hreflang="de-de". Also spot-check that storefront text (checkout, shipping messages, product pages) renders correctly in Austrian German — since there's no fallback, any gap in de_AT.csv will show up as missing translation, not a silently-inherited German string.

Maintaining de_AT.csv

Because this pack no longer inherits, updates to a separate de_DE pack (spelling fixes, new Magento core strings after a version upgrade, new module strings) will not propagate here automatically. After any Magento version upgrade or new module install, diff the new core/module i18n/de_DE.csv files against this one and merge in new keys — otherwise new strings introduced by an upgrade will render untranslated on the Austrian storefront until you do.

Tip: keep de_AT.csv as a single flat file rather than splitting it by module. Magento's language loader merges everything under i18n/ for the locale regardless of how many files it's split across, so there's no performance benefit to splitting — just more files to search when you're looking for one string.