By Wai_Wai on

Hi.
Does anyone know what the localization does (It is in "Admin | Localization")?
Does it only translate the administration pages, blocks, modules only?

I would like to have a translation tool which can translate the contents (eg blogs, book pages, topics) of my website. Do you know what modules or tools can do this?

Thanks!

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TLh’s picture

TLh commented

I use it to edit text that has been hard coded into the pages by drupal. For example. I used it to change the descriptions on the add content page.

-TLh

tostinni’s picture

tostinni commented

I think your looking for internationalization i18n module.
The localization module will help you to translate the interface of you web site, the i18n will allow you to have contents in various languages.
For the moment, it's a little difficult to use due to a needed patch to core, but the patch has been adopted for 4.7 version, so it will works without any problem (I hope ;-) )

Wai_Wai’s picture

Wai_Wai commented

Oh I see.
So I think I don't need to use "localisation" at all, as I'm the only administrator. I know English well and am comfortable with it.
Am I right?

Uwe Hermann’s picture

Uwe Hermann commented

Probably not, parts of the Drupal interface will also be visible to your users, so you might want to translate that, too...

Uwe.
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Wai_Wai’s picture

Wai_Wai commented

But it seems the internationalization module will take care of it.
Anyway, we have to see how it works.

Uwe Hermann’s picture

Uwe Hermann commented

Nope, i18n only translates node contents, not the interface -- that's what the locale module does.

Uwe.
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