# General Translation Integrations: Locales
URL: https://generaltranslation.com/en-US/docs/integrations/storyblok/reference/locales.mdx
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title: Locales
description: Reference for how Storyblok space languages map to General Translation locales. API reference for Storyblok locale handling.

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How General Translation resolves source and target locales for a Storyblok space. Target locales come from the space's own language configuration, mapped to supported General Translation locales.

## Overview [#overview]

| Topic | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [Locale mapping](#locale-mapping) | How space languages map to General Translation locales. |
| [Source locale](#source-locale) | How the source locale is chosen. |
| [Target locales](#target-locales) | How target locales are offered and validated. |
| [Unsupported locales](#unsupported-locales) | What happens when a locale cannot be used. |

## Locale mapping [#locale-mapping]

Storyblok configures languages per space under **Settings > Languages**. Each language has a code (for example `de` or `fr`). General Translation normalizes each code and keeps the language only when the normalized code is a supported General Translation locale.

Normalization means a space language and a General Translation locale do not have to be written identically — General Translation matches them by their normalized form. A language whose code does not normalize to a supported locale is dropped from the available locales.

## Source locale [#source-locale]

**Default** the Project's default locale

The **Source locale** on the management page defaults to your Project's default locale. You can change it to any supported locale that is not already one of the space's configured languages.

## Target locales [#target-locales]

The **Target locales** are defaulted from the space's configured languages that map to supported General Translation locales, with the source locale removed. You can deselect or add locales before running.

A target locale is accepted only when it is both:

- Configured as a language on the Storyblok space, and
- Mapped to a supported General Translation locale.

At translation time, each target locale is re-validated against the space. Translations are written back into the story under the Storyblok language code, while the General Translation job uses the normalized locale.

## Unsupported locales [#unsupported-locales]

A target locale that is not configured on the space is rejected with an error stating the locale is not configured for the space. A locale that is configured on the space but does not map to a supported General Translation locale is rejected as unsupported. Add the language in Storyblok, or choose a supported locale, to resolve either case.