I'm having a problem with the menu translations. I am unable to translate the menu items if I change the language default to french (instead of english).

While the language default was english, I created a page in english, and gave it its own menu item in the primary links. I translated the page to french, and also translated the menu item in the menu admin section. This worked fine, until I changed the default to french.

After I change the default, I can't translate the menu item anymore, both versions show the english title. Strangely enough, the navigation menu itself does still get translated if I switch languages, and the french translations for the menus are still in the database. If I switch the default back to english, everthing works fine again, and the french menu titles show up when I edit them.

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Roberto Gerola’s picture

Roberto Gerola commented

Hi.
Yes, changing the default language after you have translated the content
isn't recommended.

I didn't made tests on this, so this could cause unpredictable results.
Nothing of destructive, of course.

Roberto

dboulet’s picture

dboulet commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
naisanzaa’s picture

naisanzaa commented
Issue tags: +translation, +problem, +translating, +Chinese language, +translating content

I am having the complete opposite problem. Administration menus all translate perfectly. I can't translate anything else, other than everything that came with a standard in a Drupal installation (Administer, descriptions, content management, blocks, etc).

Menus, pages, stories, nothing user created. I can't find any page content strings through the Translate interface Search, either.

The translation languages are zh-hant and zh-hans.

-Eric