Say how a screen built outside ESP Screens gets its language

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-19 22:32:22 +02:00
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 The language, the 12 or 24-hour clock and how numbers are written are the same on every screen: Settings → Language &
 region in ESP Screens (app 0.2.90, firmware 0.2.76). They follow Home Assistant's language unless you choose otherwise.
+ESP Screens writes the language into each screen's YAML (`LANGUAGE: "nl"` under `substitutions:`), and the screen shows
+it after its next firmware update. A screen whose YAML ESP Screens can't reach, such as one you build with ESPHome on
+another machine, gets that line from you: a code from [`screen_manager/translations`](screen_manager/translations);
+English is the default. [Translating ESP Screens](docs/TRANSLATING.md) says how to add or check a language.

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  <img src="docs/images/guition-settings-menu.png" width="32%" alt="The settings menu on the Guition: Brightness, Night, Screen and This screen">