url front matter variable does not override language parameter

[fritzmg]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.59.0-1DD0C69C windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2019-10-21T09:40:37Z

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

The documentation says the following about the url front matter variable:

the full path to the content from the web root. It makes no assumptions about the path of the content file. It also ignores any language prefixes of the multilingual feature.

The highlighted part does not seem to be true any more, at least with Hugo 0.58.3 and 0.59.0.

For example, if you have the following file:

backend/_index.de.md

with the following front matter variables:

---
title: "Administrationsbereich"
url: "de/administrationsbereich"
weight: 3
---

Then the resulting URL will be de/de/administrationsbereich instead of de/administrationsbereich in a multilingual environment.

In Hugo 0.54.0 this works as described in the documentation.

May be this was a deliberate change (which I would prefer) and simply the documentation has not been updated.

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[fritzmg]

This is still an issue in Hugo 0.67.1. However, as I already said, may be it is just the documentation that needs to be changed (which I would prefer).

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