New language without core package

[Dangerous Boy]

I have set categories, modules, menus and content to their respective language.
But, as you know, some countries use the same language but not the content..
say we have Spain and México, one is on America and the other in Europe, EU products are not available in MX and MX product are not available in EU...
So, usually I install a language package IT, De, ES, AR...etc, but what does the "NEW" button actually do in [content language] /administrator/index.php?option=com_languages&view=languages
it allows me to create a new "language" without a package, so I did that
MX, PE, AR, GT, ES, CO, they all using Spanish so instead of installing a package for each one I can just register a new content language, then I can just create a main menu for that new language, categories, content, modules...etc.
So I did, but the language module doesn't show the new language., so what am I doing wrong here?
Or what does the NEW button actually do in [Content Language][/administrator/index.php?option=com_languages&view=languages]... well, it creates a new "language" but it doesn't actually show it at the module language switcher nor it loads the url
/en /mx /ar /pe ..etc
when entering /en it shows all ok, but when "calling" for /mx it should show the content in spanish but instead it shows a 404 in English and it redirects to the default language...

So, do I need to install a package for this to work?

[pe7er]

Did you create a menu item that is assigned as "default homepage" for each language?

Did you check the "Multilingual Status"?

Screenshot from 2022-07-06 10-13-47.png

[Dangerous Boy]

Did you create a menu item that is assigned as "default homepage" for each language?

Did you check the "Multilingual Status"?

Screenshot from 2022-07-06 10-13-47.png

Thank you @pe7er, it seems that I have to install a language package, then again whats the point for the [New button] if at the end I have to use the installed package...
May be is the language tag [en-US] if I install Spanish then the tag is [es-ES] and then I create a new "language" but the tag is different [es-MX] or [es-PE], the first one is ok, but the rest has to have the installation package or use the same language tag, I really don't know haven't test it that way because I ended up making copies and doing my own packages base on the base language...

[pe7er]

You're welcome!

IMHO language selection is intended to just select the website language of your preference. Not the area/products that are available in your area.

An English person who lives in Mexico might want to read the info about the products available in Mexico in their English language.

• Why don't you just use the Spanish language pack without displaying the language flag in the Language Switcher Module? So display [English] [Español] instead of the language flags.
• Use Joomla's categories to distinguish the different areas for different products.
• And the languages to create different language descriptions for each of them.

With just two versions (one English and one Spanish translation) of each Article, the maintenance of your website will be much easier.

[brian]

Looks like a bug https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/38224

[Dangerous Boy]

Looks like a bug https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/38224

Thank you.

Yes I got that too, which happen when creating a new language and using the same "language tag"
Say you create a new language with a different seo tag "en-IN" without the package and using the base language as "en-US" which is the "language tag", it will give you that error(at least it did for me) and if you use a different language tag it will trow another error that the "language tag" can not be found.