In Country Code module, we added an alternative language filter that provides a fallback for languages, i.e. the filter says "show me all content for the current language (e.g., fr-CA) and as a fallback any content for a two-digit version of that language (fr)". Later we decided this filter has not to do with country, hence it needs to be elsewhere.

Would this be considered as a feature for views? Or should we go with a new project/module?

The module code is here.

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nedjo
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A major issue I guess is that the filter depends on translation module and requires custom indexes. I don't know that there's an effective way for views to add indexes to a table that may not exist when views is installed.

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merlinofchaos commented

In fact, Views will absolutely not modify core tables, even to add indices. Which kind of sucks, but if that's a requirement it can't be in core Views. It may be something that should be a small module unto its own, perhaps.

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I think that makes this won't fix - the proper place would be in translation module, but that's in core of course.