How to Localize your Discord Bot in 2026

Discord bots reach users across the globe. If your bot replies in English-only (or whatever language you choose), you're leaving a huge portion of your audience with a worse experience. Discord even provides a locale field on every interaction, so you already know what language each user prefers - you just need to use it. This guide walks through building a localized Discord bot using li18n, a compile-time i18n library for TypeScript that turns your JSON message files into fully type-safe functi