Answers.Body: <p>This is not really an answer but a work around. </p>
  
  <p>You can use smarty's to look for the English and replace it with the French (which I'm guessing at).</p>
  
  <pre><code>{if "{contact.gender}" eq "Female"}
      Femme
  {elseif "{contact.gender}" eq 'Male'}
      Masculin
  {/if}
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>I see the option to set a contact's Preferred Language, and I have set up my test system with French and English.  If I make French the default for the whole system, when I edit the demographics of a contact, the radio options are in French, but the displayed text after saving is in English.</p>
  
  <p>When I send an email to a contact with French as the Preferred language, and use the token contact.gender, the token replacement is still in English.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to have token replacements respect the preferred language for each contact, and use the translated value?  Or am I stuck with English values because the system was installed in English?</p>
  
Tags: <tokens><i18n>
Title: Can a message template replace tokens with appropriate translations?
ThreadText: # Can a message template replace tokens with appropriate translations?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-19)
  
  I see the option to set a contact's Preferred Language, and I have set up my test system with French and English. If I make French the default for the whole system, when I edit the demographics of a contact, the radio options are in French, but the displayed text after saving is in English.
  
  When I send an email to a contact with French as the Preferred language, and use the token contact.gender, the token replacement is still in English.
  
  Is there a way to have token replacements respect the preferred language for each contact, and use the translated value? Or am I stuck with English values because the system was installed in English?
  
  **Tags:** tokens, i18n
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-21. Score: 1
  
  This is not really an answer but a work around.
  
  You can use smarty's to look for the English and replace it with the French (which I'm guessing at).
  
  ```
  {if "{contact.gender}" eq "Female"}
      Femme
  {elseif "{contact.gender}" eq 'Male'}
      Masculin
  {/if}
  
  ```
  
  
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