diff --git a/assets/js/app/editor/Components/Html.vue b/assets/js/app/editor/Components/Html.vue
index a17e5c85b0..e8e3c7d1fd 100644
--- a/assets/js/app/editor/Components/Html.vue
+++ b/assets/js/app/editor/Components/Html.vue
@@ -5,10 +5,61 @@
 </template>
 
 <script>
+import jQuery from 'jquery';
 import trumbowyg from 'vue-trumbowyg';
 import 'trumbowyg/dist/ui/trumbowyg.css';
 import { strip } from '../../../filters/string';
 
+// Trumbowyg's UI translations, one langs/<code>.min.js per language. Loading a file
+// registers it on jQuery.trumbowyg.langs. English is built in.
+const langFiles = require.context('trumbowyg/dist/langs', false, /\.min\.js$/);
+
+// Trumbowyg names some languages differently from the ISO codes Bolt uses. Its `my`
+// is Malay, while ISO `my` is Burmese, so that one must not match as-is.
+const langAliases = new Map([
+    ['be', 'by'],
+    ['fil', 'ph'],
+    ['ms', 'my'],
+    ['my', null],
+    ['nn', 'nb'],
+    ['no', 'nb'],
+    ['sr', 'rs'],
+    ['sr_latn', 'rs_latin'],
+    ['tl', 'ph'],
+    ['uk', 'ua'],
+    ['zh', 'zh_cn'],
+    ['zh_hans', 'zh_cn'],
+    ['zh_hant', 'zh_tw'],
+    ['zh_hk', 'zh_tw'],
+    ['zh_mo', 'zh_tw'],
+]);
+
+// Loads the Trumbowyg language matching a Bolt locale and returns its code, or 'en'
+// when Trumbowyg has no translation for it. Tries the whole locale first, then drops
+// one part at a time: `sr_Latn_RS` -> `sr_latn` -> `sr`, `de_AT` -> `de`.
+function loadLang(locale) {
+    const parts = locale.toLowerCase().replace(/-/g, '_').split('_');
+
+    for (let length = parts.length; length > 0; length--) {
+        const candidate = parts.slice(0, length).join('_');
+        const lang = langAliases.has(candidate) ? langAliases.get(candidate) : candidate;
+        const file = `./${lang}.min.js`;
+
+        if (lang && langFiles.keys().includes(file)) {
+            langFiles(file);
+
+            // Arabic, Hebrew and Persian also set `_dir: 'rtl'`, which Trumbowyg applies
+            // to the editable area. The text direction belongs to the content being
+            // edited, not to the backend language, so only the labels are used.
+            delete jQuery.trumbowyg.langs[lang]._dir;
+
+            return lang;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return 'en';
+}
+
 export default {
     name: 'EditorHtml',
     components: {
@@ -19,6 +70,10 @@ export default {
         label: String,
         name: String,
         id: String,
+        locale: {
+            type: String,
+            default: 'en',
+        },
     },
     data: () => {
         return {
@@ -40,6 +95,10 @@ export default {
             },
         };
     },
+    created() {
+        // Must be set before Trumbowyg initialises, which happens when the child mounts.
+        this.config.lang = loadLang(this.locale);
+    },
     mounted() {
         this.val = strip(this.value);
     },
diff --git a/templates/_partials/fields/html.html.twig b/templates/_partials/fields/html.html.twig
index 7d34dc994d..09f8b14a31 100644
--- a/templates/_partials/fields/html.html.twig
+++ b/templates/_partials/fields/html.html.twig
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
         :value="{{ value|json_encode }}"
         :name='{{ name|json_encode }}'
         :id='{{ id|json_encode}}'
+        :locale='{{ app.request.locale|json_encode }}'
     ></editor-html>
 {% endblock %}