From 415416d2a7b42480b95dfca2db7208b91123b0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 11:44:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: translate language keys if passed in to
 formatApiResponse

---
 src/controllers/helpers.js | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/controllers/helpers.js b/src/controllers/helpers.js
index 1cedac39f1..bf05a1541d 100644
--- a/src/controllers/helpers.js
+++ b/src/controllers/helpers.js
@@ -493,6 +493,10 @@ async function generateBannedResponse(res) {
 }
 
 helpers.generateError = async (statusCode, message) => {
+	if (message && message.startsWith('[[')) {
+		message = await translator.translate(message);
+	}
+
 	const payload = {
 		status: {
 			code: 'internal-server-error',