how to disable 'language neutral' option for creating new pages?

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i have the same question. lots of new nodes that created by user are "language neutral" now. actually these node must assign to English language.

i need to set the English language the default language for every new node. and allow users chose language neutral is not necessary because a page always belong to a language.

one more thing, the default "language neutral" creates duplicated urls. for example, my site is in 3 language. if a user created a node without chose language. there will be 3 urls point to the same page.
http://language1.mysite.com/nodeurl
http://language2.mysite.com/nodeurl
http://language3.mysite.com/nodeurl
I am worried if the search engine will punish me because of this.

I'm also looking for a way to disable the 'language neutral'. It makes filtering for language harder, and I can't even see what use it is anyway? I've been trying to think of a scenario where I'd want 'no language' assigned to a node, and I simply can't think of one. I'm sure it's there for a reason, but it must be an obscure one?

Cheers.

Feature request go to HEAD.

+1

Language Neutral is almost never applied. I can only think of complete numeric data & names/brands...
I would like to choose from 2 or more radio buttons depending on the number of languages enabled, instead of a language already selected in a dropdown list.

I'd like to add my voice to this. Would also like to see the same in 6.xx versions

Thanks

Some input:
http://drupal.org/node/250891
Additional idea:
http://drupal.org/node/527862

I worked on a module that provides this functionality for 6.X and adds the functionality to select a dynamic or fixed default language for nodetypes.
You can download and review it here http://drupal.org/node/625128.

The official project for Language Select is at http://drupal.org/project/language_select

.. a little bit late...
but since i was searching for it
Content Management> content type>"your content type">Multilingual options
tick ...Set current language as default for new content.
tick ...Require language (Do not allow Language Neutral).

The suggestion above concerns Drupal 6 + i18n module. This is a core feature request, which are accepted only for the latest core version. Please don't change the issue version.

We have suggestions above for Drupal 6/7 + i18n module.

For Drupal core this can only be added in Drupal 8, the issue at #1314250: Allow filtering/configuration of which languages apply to what (UI, nodes, files, etc) has the goal to allow you to disable certain languages for certain things.

Dude!!!! thx a bunch!! after 3 hours with this freaking issue....just thx man!!

D7: here is the module you need: http://drupal.org/project/dnl

for drupal 7 I used this:

/**
 * Implements hook_form_node_form_alter().
 */
function YOUR_MODULE_form_node_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {

  if (isset($form['language']['#options'])) {
    if (isset($form['language']['#options'][LANGUAGE_NONE])) {
      unset($form['language']['#options'][LANGUAGE_NONE]);
    }
    else {
      //if we have Enabled/Disabled array
      foreach($form['language']['#options'] as $key => $languages) {
        if (is_array($languages) && isset($form['language']['#options'][$key][LANGUAGE_NONE])) {
          unset($form['language']['#options'][$key][LANGUAGE_NONE]);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

it works thanks mantask

At least for Drupal 7 you can use the i18n module. It contains an i18n_node module.

1. Enable the i18n_node.
2. Go to edit the content type (admin/structure/types/manage/page).
3. Open the 'Multilingual settings' tab.
4. Check the 'Require language' checkbox.

Thanks @jiv_e, that info is helpful.
In case anyone needs to export this into a feature, it's a strongarm variable with prefix i18n_ language_ or locale_.