Posted by igalmal on September 30, 2011 at 4:07am
Hello,
I am new here and also new to Drupal. Need your advice.
We have multilingual a site. The default language is English and most of the languages will be translated from English. However, we have language like Ukrainian which make sense to translate from Russian, so not translated pages will still remain in Russian. Most of Ukrainians can read Russian better than English; That may be also true for some Arabic languages with French as a second language.
Let me know if you know how to do Dynamic default language for translation.
Thank you.
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Dynamic default language for translation
is this forum dead or just wrong place for my question?
Hi igalmal, If I understand
Hi igalmal,
If I understand correctly. What you need is to select the default language to language will have you believe. This is configured in /admin/content/node-type/name in multilanguage options.
PS: I understand you have already mounted a multilanguage environment.
Dynamic default language for translation
Yes I do have multilingual environment, and English language marked as a source
what I want to do is to have different languages as source for another languages
some kind of Parent child relationship
for example
Ukrainian will have Russian as a source
Modern Standard Arabic will be parent for different variation of Arab languages
and maybe French will be source for Modern Standard Arabic
Please really need your advice,
Thank you
I'm afraid you cannot really
I'm afraid you cannot really do this unless you want to code some module to implement the feature.
Global variable source
Don't really want to change existing module but open to write a new code, any suggestions on where to start?
Does this feature make sense for somebody except us or it just our sick imagination. Why everything must be translated from one main source?
I didn't check existing code, but looks like removing global variable 'source' and add this field to each page so it can be selected during translation on page by page basis.
I think yes, the feature
I think yes, the feature makes sense, I've seen that feature request in the past a few times.
Possibly you'll need some remake of the tools you are using (l10n client?). About what language to translate from (source) that may be better a user preference.