Internationalization

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This group works on internationalization issues, like making it possible to translate menus, nodes and taxonomies in Drupal. This includes everything from process and workflows, to actual code issues or optimizations required. The Translations group is where to go if you are working on translating Drupal core or contrib modules.

andy inman's picture

Language-aware links - does anybody have a solution?

I keep running up against these issues... Here are a couple of scenarios:

Scenario 1

I create the node Welcome in English and Bienvenido in Spanish. The content of both nodes include a link to About us which is currently only available in English. Months later, About us gets translated to Spanish and becomes Sobre nosotros. Nobody remembers to go back and update the Bienvenido node and change the link to point to Sobre nosotros instead of About us.

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Duncan_S's picture

Drupal 5.x - Multilingual images?

I've searched high and low for how to implement multilingual images in Drupal 5.x, but I don't think I'm looking in the right places and I've had no luck thus far.

So, how do you folks generally implement language specific images? Spread your knowledge, I implore.

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nonprofit's picture

Internationalization on a 6.3 multisight install

Hi, I'm building a 6.3 site and am looking for a little assistance with internationalization. If anyone has any advice, or even if you can point me toward some tutorials, I'd be very grateful. Essentially we've got two URLs and I want to tag and send all of the English content to one URL and all of the Spanish to the other. Is it best to let Views parse all of the content into Blocks which target specific pages the best approach? (Will this even work on a multisight install?

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yaoweizhen's picture

How to bind to two page created by views

I created two page by views, one for chinese, another for english. There isn't transtion tab in view, so how to switch language between two pages?

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KrzysieQ's picture

How to organize translation team?

Hi, I need organize translation team. Our team translate .po file (gettext) from a some Linux application to polish. And I need prepare some system (CMS) which should include: import English template (.pot), manual online translation, export *.po file, plural forms, users privileges etc. It can be concatenate with drupal (we've already used it), but it isn't requirement. I'm looking for something for a long time but don't find anything useful. Could You help me ?

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timmillwood's picture

Language order

I am developing a multilingual site and not all nodes will be in all the languages so I want to give the user the option to choose the order the node's language is shown.

For example the site offers English, Spanish and French, a frech user is browsing the site and comes across a node which is only available in Spanish or English. I want there to be a profile setting which tells drupal if Spanish is not available user language X or use language Y.

Is there a module for this?

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polishyourimage's picture

Language negotiation - domain only

Greetings!

This is my first post and question to this group.

I've seen many subdomain examples of domain only language negotiation, but no examples using an entirely different domain name, i.e. instead of http://dk.mysite.com/ I would like to use http://www.mysite.dk/. Is this possible?

I am creating two multilingual sites in drupal and one client has already purchased the additional domain names.

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Mobile Michael's picture

How to use i18n for menu link to "blog" (D6)

I am running a trilingual blog on a charity website on Drupal6 + i18n module but can't configure the primary link to the blog to show up in the choosen language only.

Internationlisation is working like charme for the blog:
www.artandaid.org/en/blog/1 => blog shows up in English
www.artandaid.org/de/blog/1 => blog shows up in German
www.artandaid.org/blog/1 => blog shows in the users language
Wonderful!

Now I would like to add two links to the primaries

Our Blog => en/blog/1
Unser Blog => de/blog/1

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andy inman's picture

Multi-language sites, Views, CCK etc - what do you need?

Hi - I just found this group - these seem to be the right people :)

Firstly a quick announcement - Language Sections is now available for Drupal 6 - a solution for a few problems, maybe - http://drupal.org/project/language_sections

I'm looking for input from people who use Drupal for a multi-language site. What are the issues, in your experience? A typical problem, maybe, is how to have a View which elegantly handles the user switching languages (you can clone the View to make one version per language, but surely that's inelegant to say the least?)

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andy inman's picture

Do you need just *two* languages (e.g. your local language and English) or "multi" language capability?

Just two is fine
33% (16 votes)
I need three
22% (11 votes)
I need lots!
45% (22 votes)
Total votes: 49
Anonymous's picture

Language Based Access Control

Hello,

I'm building a multi-lingual site, where I would like different translation groups/roles to be able to work on their language (and only their language) to translate source content. In some cases translating in response to content being posted, and at other times originating the content.

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avior's picture

real multi lingual forum

Hi
I am trying to use forum in a multi lingual site
the problem is that i don't want the end user to select the language , i want it to be selected automatically by the "context" - i mean by the forum language

i have set up 2 groups (one for each language)
forum/1 - English
forum/2 - Hebrew

so when the user uses English site for example and enters forum/1 and presses on "add forum topic" , he needs to select the language, and i want this to be automated

one way i can do this by is by hook_from_alter()
is there another way ?
am i the first who needs this ?

Thanks , Avior

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Amazon's picture

UX improvements in Drupal 6: Internationalization

Here's a blog post I wrote, highlighting 47 patches to Drupal 6 which enabled internationlization.

http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/ux-improvements-drupal-6-internationalization

Cheers,
Kieran

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ceege111's picture

Learning how to do internationalization

I need a sanity check. I have installed i8n and enabled it, and it is happy....but the functionality confuses me. The languages block is enabled and has English and Japanese. I have installed the Japanese .po file, and when one hits "Japanese" the Drupal system UI changes to Japanese but the node content does not. At the bottom of the page there is a "Japanese" button that changes to node content to the translated page. That does not change the menus. What I want is for the language block to change everything - the menus but more importantly, the content.

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lishevita's picture

Language-specific translation permissions

I'm using Drupal 6 to create a translation site. The translations getting done on the site are of content, not the Drupal interface itself, but the issues I'm facing are probably the same as you would deal with when planning the I18n Server, which is why I'm asking about this here...

I want to give each translator access only to his/her language(s) for translation. I can do this by creating perms for each language:

  foreach (language_list() as $language){
    $perms[] = 'translate '.$language->name;
  }
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Anonymous's picture

Theming for specific language

Is there a way to automatically wrap all "translated" text with html tags? For example, the font for dz (Dzongkha/Tibetan) is really quite small compared to western fonts due to the possible height of characters in the language. It would be very useful to take any text and wrap it with tags so that I could then institute text formatting with a stylesheet, while not disturbing and western text that may be untranslated.

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Non-Gregorian Dates and Calendars

There have been periodic requests to add support for non-Gregorian dates and calendars to Drupal. (See http://drupal.org/node/242965 and http://drupal.org/node/166234, for example) I've been doing a bit of thinking about this and have concluded that it could be possible but would require a big effort. The basic approach I'm thinking of now would be to create a wrapper class for date and calendar handling that will default to use Gregorian dates but would make it possible to plug in others.

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eriktoyra's picture

Remove languages from $links for usability reasons?

First post here in this group, so a warm "Hi!" to everyone!

The background

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GiorgosK's picture

Language selection (from block) doesn't filter content by language ?? (D6)

I was under the impression that when selecting a language, from the language selection block (in drupal6), the content is also filtered to display only the nodes in the selected language

This behaviour is also confirmed by this handbook page http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/translation

Use the language switcher block provided by locale module to allow users to select a language. If available, both the site interface and site content are presented in the language selected.

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