Shopify adding multilingual features

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At Shopify Unite, the ecommerce platform announced key new features for running stores in multiple languages.

• A new translations API will allow Shopify partners to build more flexible translations features for products, blog posts and more.
• A shops locale API will further refine which locales are published or unpublished.
• Shopify will also roll out support for unique URLs for different languages. For example, mystore.com can have a French version at mystore.com/fr and Italian at mystore.com/it.
• Liquid changes will also allow Shopify themes to automatically display the correct translations based on these URL paths and availability of translations.
• Store owners will be able to manage which languages are available on their store, including keeping some in an unpublished state.