Internationalization
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.
Permissions
Administrators and creators can change the language of the user interface for public documentation.
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 need to publish your documentation in multiple languages, you can use variants. Publishing a collection as a variant enables you create a space per-language and publish the collection as unified UI, allowing readers to switch seamlessly between different language spaces.
An example of a translated documentation in Japanese
Last modified 1mo ago