Fallback

Often, translations lag behind the source code. And it is necessary to make sure that the user sees at least the English version of the message, instead of some meaningless text. For example, for the following code:

<p>Hello</p>

When it is extracted initially, it becomes the following for other languages:

msgid "Hello"
msgstr ""

Then, unless not configured properly wuchale never shows some empty or weird text to the user. What it does is, during compile time, if the text has not yet been translated, it uses the compiled version of the source message (Hello in the example) instead. That way the worst that the user sees is the message as written in the source code.

This doesn’t need a separate configuration, it is the default behavior.