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fitness trainer - July 27, 2008 - 18:38

I'm rummaging around trying to see how This ties together with That, and I come across mention of "language translation" or some-such...so does Drupal (or one of its modules) somehow translate English into another language?? I'm interested in having automatic computer translations of my webpages done, and I'd hire a native speaker to verify its semantics and clean it up here and there.

Or have I misunderstood and Drupal only offers documentation, etc., in different languages?

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zirvap - July 28, 2008 - 06:05

Drupal's main translation functions are:

  • Interface translation ("Log in", "Post comment" etc. in several languages)
  • Support for multilanguage content (you can create several translations of content, so users reading one page can click on a link and see the same page in another language, but you need to provide the translations yourself)

More info in the handbook: Translation, multilanguage content, and internationalization

I think I've seen a module for automatic translation using Google, take a look at http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/97 and see if you can find anything that fits.

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Thanks!

fitness trainer - July 28, 2008 - 07:45

Just what I had in mind...unfortunately, the Google Thinggy module hasn't been updated for Drupal 6! I hope it will be....

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