Internationalization: Build Multilingual Sites

Last modified: March 29, 2009 - 07:29

This is a complete manual and step-by-step guide to building multilingual websites with Drupal and the internationalization package (i18n).

The internationalization package is a collection of modules that adds, besides the basic interface translation provided by the locale module, several features that allow for the creation of comprehensive multilingual sites with content and categories in multiple languages.

Language Switcher and Translations blocks

incrn8 - June 7, 2008 - 14:43

For those of you who are only seeing the interface change language and not the content, please read this.

There are two i18n blocks available in the Drupal 5.x-2.3 version (and below) of i18n: 1. Language Switcher and 2. Translations. The first one ONLY switches the interface language, while the second one changes the node language as well. It is the second one that many of you are looking for.

The real problem is that their names are somewhat misleading, plus the first one you see in the list is "the wrong one", and people don't usually see past that one. Hence, the confusion. In i18n versions higher than 5.x-2.3, it should be clearer - the blocks are now called "Language switcher (Interface only)" and "Translations for Content". Personally, I would like to see them appear one after the other in the Blocks list, just to make things even more clear e.g. "Language switcher (Interface only)" and "Language switcher (Interface and Content)".

My hope is that this comment will help make the block issue a bit clearer, and reduce the number of questions about this in the issue queue. Hence, the reason why it appears on the front page of the i18n documentation.

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Missing guide

makopolok - February 21, 2009 - 14:38

I don't see the guide or am I missing something ?

Don't see it either...

New Oceans - February 21, 2009 - 15:21

Seems to be gone?
Might be related to the D6 upgrade?

Actually I'm looking for info about multi language taxonomy.

Anyone?

UPDATE
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Found some info about multi language taxonomies here:
- http://drupal.org/node/157245

But still I don't get it...

D6 upgrade broke "Beyond the basics". Fix is in progress.

kylehase - March 30, 2009 - 01:19

All content links under "Beyond the basics" were broken by the D6 upgrade.
The bug is known and and the status is "active".

http://drupal.org/node/376790

--Update--
Table of contents is now fixed.

These guide refer to version 5

makopolok - February 26, 2009 - 12:00

It is helpful but just be aware the guide is for Drupal 5 and the links are not always in the same place . For example in my i18 installation. the multilingual settings are a tab in the Languages site setings.

found a tutorial here:

tzvio - March 14, 2009 - 11:14

Language Icons

hychanhan - June 17, 2009 - 02:45

Does drupal-5.0 have language icons module?

Thanks,
ChanHan Hy

 
 

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