Is it possible to set a different fallback language rather than English when using defaultTranslation plugin? Because in some cases it is more reasonable to use a different language when some minor languages are not fully translated, especially in the bilingual territories which are not English speaking (like Spanish for Catalan or Russian for Belarusian)?
What about your settings in the main language settings here: Site Administration - are you able to set this up this way? Or does it just show up with the usual ## strings where the translation doesn’t exist?
From the description in the default translation plugin it looks like it only defaults to English. But, I am flagging my colleague @bozana here, as she was one of the developers for the plugin and may be able to tell us if it could be configured differently to have a different default locale. I’d be curious to know.
I set Russian as the main language, I think I have managed to get what I needed, I have changed locale in defaultTranslation plugin code (everywhere I could find it), so now I have Russian strings where Kazakh translation is missing.
Fallback is to English only but, long time ago, we also talk about the need of extending it (to create a hierarchy as “Catalan > Spanish > English”).
I think your petition is better than my original request (you are talking about different fallback for each lang).
Issues are enabled on the plugin’s repository, so feel free to file one there. This is a situation where the requested change is probably not going to be a very broadly-requested one, so it’ll be tough for us to dedicate development time to it – but it is a relatively quick change to have the fallback locale fetched from e.g. the configuration file, rather than hard-coded.