Hi Jose,

about translating menu item titles for language neutral pages (especially useful with the language sections module), netgenius, the author of the language sections module, proposed the concept of a multi-language page in addition to the language neutral pages.
I would like to invite you (and everyone else interested in this) to join the discussion at http://drupal.org/node/313770. It might be easy to implement all this in i18n, but maybe it could even be easier with the upcoming language extras module, see http://drupal.org/node/303417. I'm not yet sure.
I'm very willing to help with writing and testing patches for either module, but first we need some discussion about this concept, and you would definitely be helpful with your knowledge about these topics.

cu,
Frank

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jose reyero’s picture

jose reyero commented
Title: The concept of multi-language nodes » Support for translation of some node strings
Category: feature » task

Hey Frank,

Yes, I can see the problem. Actually it's the second time I come across such feature request, or similar.

So I think yes, this is something that shouldn't take too much work on i18n side, so let's add it to the module's to do list (which means also patches specially welcomed)

I think we could use i18nstrings for that, and we could be translating node titles, for 'language neutral' nodes:
- Menu items, using i18nmenu functions.
- Titles for node view / node listings (but not for node edit forms), using some nodeapi() hook
- (Maybe) For selectable cck fields too, considering this it may make more sense in some separate plug-in module

Frank Steiner’s picture

Frank Steiner commented

Ok! I want to try the language extras module to see what it will provide to help with this problem, then we can decide if we add functionality from this module to i18n or whatever.

jose reyero’s picture

jose reyero commented
Category: task » feature
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Feel free to reopen if anyone comes up with a patch. Otherwise I won't be working on this feature.