[2.3-develop] magento/magento2#17833: Child theme does not inherit translations fr…

[vpodorozh]

Description ( #17833 )

Child theme does not inherit translations from parent theme.
Theme inheritance does not work as expected with [translation dictionaries][1]. The child theme does not use any translations defined in it's parent theme's en_US.csv translation dictionary.

Fixed Issues

1. Child theme does not inherit translations from parent theme #17833: Child theme does not inherit translations from parent theme

Preconditions

I'm working on a Magento ver 2.2.5 installation with two websites & two corresponding theme's. Each with their own [translation dictionary][1], and one theme inheriting from the other.

Manual testing scenarios

1. Set up a magento instance with two websites and with two theme's, one inheriting from luma and the other inheriting from the other theme you created. See theme structure below.
2. Add a the translation string "Create New Customer Account","Create New Account" to the parent theme's en_US.csv translation dictionary.
3. Go to the /customer/account/create/ URL for the website with the child theme applied.

Expected result
The page title should be Create New Account

Actual result
The page title is still Create New Customer Account

• If go to the /customer/account/create/ URL for the website with the parent theme applied, the page title should is Create New Account. So the child theme is not picking up translations from the parent theme.
• If you add the translation string "Create New Customer Account","Create New Account" to the Child theme's en_US.csv translation dictionary you can see the translation string applied corectly on the website with the child theme applied.

Is this a bug with Magento or am I doing something wrong?

Is the [translation dictionary][1] documentation incorrect and this is actually the correct behaviour?

Contribution checklist

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• All automated tests passed successfully (all builds on Travis CI are green)

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[magento-engcom-team]

Hi @sivaschenko, thank you for the review.
ENGCOM-3375 has been created to process this Pull Request

[sivaschenko]

Thank you for your contribution @vpodorozh ! In result of this change, parent theme translation file will be used if there is no translation file in the current (child) theme.

[magento-engcom-team]

Hi @vpodorozh. Thank you for your contribution.
We will aim to release these changes as part of 2.3.1.
Please check the release notes for final confirmation.