# "function words" only in English?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 20, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738 "2021-05-20T13:51:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![theloni0us](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/theloni0us/32/972_2.png) [@theloni0us](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/theloni0us)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738/1 "2021-05-20T13:51:49Z")

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Hi,

are function words hard-coded only in English? I haven’t been able to find how to change that.

My default citation key generator is:

[auth][year]\_[veryshorttitle:capitalize]

If the full title is in English, like “An example title”, that generates AuthorYYYY\_Example, but if the title is in any other language, like “Ein dummes Beispiel”, it generates AuthorYYYY\_Ein.

How/where can I add function words in other languages?

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**Author:** ![k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/k3kaw8pnf7mkmdsmphz2/32/1116_2.png) [@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738/2 "2021-05-20T21:24:44Z")

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At the moment they are unfortunately hard-coded in

> <https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/65a672adc15ef7142555f4ac128be806942a5b96/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/formatter/casechanger/Word.java#L23-L37>

You can “manually” remove words using the regex [modifier](https://docs.jabref.org/setup/citationkeypatterns#modifiers).

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**Author:** ![theloni0us](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/theloni0us/32/972_2.png) [@theloni0us](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/theloni0us)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738/3 "2021-05-20T23:38:24Z")

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I see, thanks for your reply.  
I find that this is a major limitation in JabRef, are there plans to support other languages? Should/could I place a feature request?

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**Author:** ![k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/k3kaw8pnf7mkmdsmphz2/32/1116_2.png) [@k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/k3KAW8Pnf7mkmdSMPHz2)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/function-words-only-in-english/2738/4 "2021-05-24T14:55:59Z")

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As far as I know, there is no plan to support other languages.

I’d suggest making a “Feature Request” here in the forum and perhaps describe the use case a bit more. If your `.bib` file has mixed languages it would be much harder to implement. Just adding/removing words manually to the list might be a lesser enhancement, I don’t know if that would be useful.