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Do you have an example? Would be good to solve it with rdm##3260

English https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/875
French https://extensions.libreoffice.org/fr/extensions/show/875
Switching the language in the admin area shows the localized description while the pages fr and en both are in English.

(Can we keep the page title and do the data exchange somehow internally?)

We're still in a situation where most extensions are just having the imported content from the old site, and extensions with localized content are still the rare exception, that's why there's no global langauge selection dropdown, as that would then lead to "I selected <language>, but still everything is in English" comments.

So how localization works is by the URL prefix - if you use extensions.libreoffice.org/fr → you'd get French versions of the entries (if those exist, otherwise it will fallback to English, and this is what in effect happens for ~all entries - there just isn't localized entries for the vast majority of entries).
As for why your extensions don't appear in French: seems like there is no actual French translation?

for an example: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/pt-BR/extensions/show/1 → Portoguese (Brazil) translation of https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/1

once there's a bigger number of translations we can enable browser auto-detection to have it redirect to the corresponding language URL, but at this point I don't think it makes much sense.

what I'll do as a short-time solution in the meantime is to add language links for individual extension entries if a translation is available.

no bug in the platform - it is just that French text has been entered in the English/default language section, so it still displays "English" contents as to what the system is concerned, but the English content contains French words....
In any case, I guess we should move forward with making the l10n stuff more prominent

end-April is Q2, bumping target version