We have set up our website to be completely in English as we are a diverse development team (French, Swedish and English). But since we are a Norwegian website all the site has to be in Norwegian by default which is why the default language is set to Norwegian. Now so far the Norwegian translator was happy plodding through the translate interface and converting the strings we needed to change. But we found he wasn't able to translate labels. Therefore I installed and turned on this module to enable field translations. The problem now is that the built in interface wants us to give it English and translate that into Norwegian but the field translation wants us to change all the labels into Norwegian and translate them into English. Now not only does this confuse the translator since he doesn't know which way around to do it it makes it difficult for us because if we want to add a new field we have to first find out what it's called in Norwegian. Is there anyway I can make the field translation module work the same way as core drupal and have it accept that labels are in English not the default language?

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jose reyero’s picture

jose reyero commented
Status: Active » Fixed

There's a 'Source language' option on Multilingual Settings / Strings configuration page.

However if you want to have two different source languages, this is just not supported by this module.

Daemon_Byte’s picture

Daemon_Byte commented

I know that. The problem I have is that this module, rather than not supporting different source languages, forces it. The in-built interface requires that the source language is English therefore all the modules and drupal itself needs to be translated from source "English" to target "foreign language". However all the labels and things translated by this module require you to translate the source language "default" to "foreign language". Now if you set the default language to the foreign language then you have the situation where drupal forces you to use "English" as source and this module forces you to use "foreign language" as source.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.