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Asked: 2026-06-16T00:09:59+00:00

I have a grails application with meta og tags like this: <meta property=og:description content=${message(code:’description’)}/>

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I have a grails application with meta og tags like this:

<meta property="og:description" content="${message(code:'description')}"/>

The message properties works fine for i18n if the user’s browser send the request. But in case of Facebook it is different. Facebook seems to request alwas the en_US version on my page which means that the meta og tags are always in the wrong language if the user requests the page from a de_DE browser.

Is there a way to tell facebook to use a different request language than en_US?

I tried:

<meta property="og:locale" content="de_DE" />

but this does not change the requested language as well.

What can I do to get the correct i18n?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you setup some og:locale:alternate meta tag, Facebook will rescrape the page by passing a get parameter fb_locale with the value of the locale. For example, if your site is http://mysite.com/share and it present these alternative locales:

    <html>
<head>
    <meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="fr_FR" />
    <meta property="og:locale:alternate" content="es_ES" />
    ...
</head>
    ...
</html>

    Facebook will call these url on your site.

    http://mysite.com/share
http://mysite.com/share?fb_locale=fr_FR
http://mysite.com/share?fb_locale=es_ES

    You then just need to localize you content (and set og:locale) correctly.

    Doc is here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/technical-guides/opengraph/internationalization/

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