What's the right Magento bilingual EN/FR setup?

Q: What's the right Magento bilingual EN/FR setup?

The Magento-native pattern for bilingual Canada is:One website → one store → two store views (en_CA default, fr_CA alternate)URL strategy: subfolder /fr/ for the FR storeview, with rel=canonical pointing to itself and hreflang alternates linking en-CA ↔ fr-CATranslation source: Magento’s native CSV translation files for theme strings, plus per-store-view attribute values for products / categories / CMS pagesTranslation pipeline: Crowdin or Phrase with an API push from Magento → translator → auto-pull back. We script this in CI so new products show up in Crowdin within minutes of being savedAuto-detect from ship-to: if the cart ship-to is QC, default the storefront to FR (with a one-click EN toggle if the user prefers)This is the architecture that satisfies Quebec Bill 96 and keeps Google’s indexing clean.

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The Magento-native pattern for bilingual Canada is:

One website → one store → two store views (en_CA default, fr_CA alternate)
URL strategy: subfolder /fr/ for the FR storeview, with rel=canonical pointing to itself and hreflang alternates linking en-CA ↔ fr-CA
Translation source: Magento’s native CSV translation files for theme strings, plus per-store-view attribute values for products / categories / CMS pages
Translation pipeline: Crowdin or Phrase with an API push from Magento → translator → auto-pull back. We script this in CI so new products show up in Crowdin within minutes of being saved
Auto-detect from ship-to: if the cart ship-to is QC, default the storefront to FR (with a one-click EN toggle if the user prefers)

This is the architecture that satisfies Quebec Bill 96 and keeps Google’s indexing clean.