How do I set the language of the widget

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The widget follows the visitor's browser language by default, and can be set explicitly where your site knows better.

The default

The widget's own interface text follows the browser. A Dutch browser gets Dutch labels without you doing anything.

Setting it yourself

Where your site already knows the visitor's language, because they chose it or because they are on a language-specific page, you can tell the widget rather than letting it guess. That is a small piece of website code.

Worth doing when your site has a language switcher, because a visitor who chose Dutch on a site with an English browser expects Dutch throughout.

Your own text is separate

The important distinction. The widget's labels are translated by Zendesk. What you wrote is not: greetings, out-of-office messages and trigger text stay in the language you wrote them.

For those, dynamic content gives you a version per language, and that is what makes the widget genuinely multilingual rather than half translated.

Agents are a separate question again

A widget in Dutch invites Dutch conversations, which somebody has to answer in Dutch. Skills-based routing is how you make sure they reach the right person.

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