Language Support in Drupal 6
Last modified: January 20, 2008 - 22:29
This is a screencast by birdmanx35, created for a GHOP task.
You can find the screencast at blip.tv, and download it here. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 United States License.
Outline:
- Installing Drupal 6
- Click "Learn how to install Drupal in other languages".
- Download a translation file.
- Select and install the install.po file.
- Install as normal in the comfort of your native language.
- After installation, configure your language, and reimport the other .po file.
- Set up path-based language selection.
- Translation
- Enable the Content translation module.
- Configure the content types to allow translation.
- Translate some content!
- Translating the interface- see the links.
Links:
- The Localization client module provides on-page localization editing, to allow for easier contribution to Drupal's translation community.
- Greg Knaddison (greggles) has come out with an excellent screencast further demonstrating the powers of Drupal 6's language support, and the above module.
