Languages
The platform interface is available in ten European languages, and your references and company profile can be authored and published in each of them.
referencedeck.com speaks ten European languages — both in the interface you work in and in the content you publish. This page explains how the two are related, and what visitors see when content is not (yet) available in their language.
Interface language
The interface is available in ten languages:
| Deutsch | English | Français |
| Italiano | Español | Polski |
| Română | Nederlands | Ελληνικά |
| Magyar |
Switch languages any time with the language menu in the header. Your interface language is a personal setting — it does not affect what your colleagues see, and it is independent of the content languages your company maintains.
Content languages
References and your company profile are maintained per language: every text field (project title, description, services summary, about-us text, news, …) has a separate version for each language, and each language version has its own approval and publication status.
- The language tabs in the reference form and the profile editors switch which language version you are editing.
- You decide per reference (and per profile) which languages to maintain — most companies start with one or two and add more over time.
- Publishing is per language: a reference can be live in Polish and German while its English version is still in progress.
You don't have to translate everything at once. Content that exists in only some languages is still shown to everyone — see the fallback rules below.
What visitors see — language fallback
When a visitor opens a reference or company profile, the platform delivers the best available published language:
- the visitor's language, if published,
- otherwise English,
- otherwise German.
If the delivered language differs from the visitor's language, the page shows a short hint (for example "This content is not yet available in your language and is shown in English."). Only when a reference is published in none of these languages does it stay hidden.
Languages in search
Search always works in the visitor's interface language:
- Visitors searching in German or English find content published in that language.
- Visitors searching in one of the other eight languages find everything published in their language, in English, or in German — results display each entry in the best available language, exactly like the detail pages.
Full-text queries match across language versions, so a reference titled in Polish is found by its Polish title.