After reading the docs and trying a few things I assume the option "Switch by url's language prefix" allows you to switch languages when requesting a node with the language in the path. eg:

category/english-node => fr/category/translated-node

1. If I create a translated node and put the language in the path alias, I get a page not found error.
eg:
Translated node's path alias: fr/category/translated-node
Navigate to: fr/category/translated-node
Result: Page not found error

2. If I do not put the language in the path alias, I can access the node using the language in the path alias, but drupal never generates a link in this form.
eg:
Translated node's path alias: category/translated-node
Navigate to: fr/category/translated-node
Result: Language switched and node viewable - but how can I get drupal to generate it's links like this?

3. If I go to the home page of my site and append a language to the domain it works (www.domain.com/fr, and all links from there on have the language prefix attached- eg fr/category/translated-node.

But now if I click the English flag to switch back to English, the language prefix is never removed from any of drupal's urls, so I end up with things like fr/category/english-node

Can someone explain how this option is supposed to work? Bearing in mind the following:

My site already exists in English.
None of the current paths have a language prefix in them, and I do not want this to change (search engine hassles).
I would like to translate only some of the nodes.
The translated nodes should have a language prefix on them, immediately following the domain name.
English nodes should remain with no language prefix.

Thanks

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mr.j’s picture

mr.j commented

Even worse.. even if I switch this option off, it seems that localizer still does something with any path that you try to load which contains a valid locale prefix.

For example - I try to create a new homepage for my site for only US visitors (using panels).
- I give it a path of 'us', and try to navigate to it manually (browser address bar).
- I cannot load the page - it seems localizer is intercepting the call to the page, even though I have "Switch by url's language prefix" off. Instead the default site homepage is loaded.
- If I change the panel's path to 'usa' then there is no problem, it loads fine.
- If I instead give the panels a path of 'en' (the default language), I can navigate to the page fine.

Can anybody help me? It seems there are some serious bugs with this module and no-one has any input.
Would the i18n module be a better choice for what I am trying to do?

Roberto Gerola’s picture

Roberto Gerola commented

There is no support for panels module.
"Switch by node's language" option is changing your language.

mr.j’s picture

mr.j commented

To be clear, I am not trying to translate the panels.
Panels are irrelevant, as I have a specific different panel for each language's homepage.

But anyway, I still could not work out how to use the option "Switch by url's language prefix".

Anyway I got it working how I would like it to using i18n, plus a few patches.

Thanks for your help

Roberto Gerola’s picture

Roberto Gerola commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)