Hi all,

I'm building a bilingual website containing Dutch and French. Right now, I have Dutch, French and English enabled as languages. I want English only to be the language for me as an administrator. So far, when I make new content for example, this can still be translated in all 3 languages. I want the content only to be in Dutch and French. I don't want English anywhere to appear in the website's content. Also, the language switcher on the front page lets me still select between Dutch, French and English.

It would be so great if you could enable a language just for the back-end administration. So far the admin-language comes closest: http://drupal.org/project/admin_language
However: 1) if you select an admin language, this language will still be shown in the create content pages and the language switcher.
2) The admin language is a good idea, but I rather keep the admin language based on the personal language of the user. I, as a webdesigner, User-1, will want to work in English, but the client, the Editor of the website, will want his admin language in French. And I don't think the admin language module doesn't take that in consideration, but I might be wrong here.

Thanks in advance,
Danny

A copy in the forum: http://drupal.org/node/568608

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danny_joris commented

By accident I double negated the last sentence of point 2 there.

+ A copy in the issue queue of the Admin Language module: http://drupal.org/node/568660

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danny_joris commented

I disabled English as a language, but still I can select 'English' as a language when I edit or make new content. My client doesn't need this.

Anyone who knows why this is happening?

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ari-meetai commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

http://drupal.org/project/admin_language

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danny_joris commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Needs review

Well, that's true, and the maintainer of admin_language is working on it, but somehow I feel that #2 has nothing to do with 'administration language'. I feel that it has to be fixed in core. Maybe if the maintainer of admin_language succeeds in this, this functionality could be moved to core?

I think #2 is still a big issue. Probably because most multilingual websites all translate to English nowadays, there are not many issues about that. But I'm working on a website that only needs French and Dutch content. Even if I disable English in the main language admin form, English will always be an option. I use my multilingual website with In-Place-Translation, I always have a huge extra textarea (with FCKeditor, so it loads quite some) for English in my node creation or edit forms. With every translation I make in my entire site, there is always an English field that I need to ignore. In node creation, in pathAuto, etc...

So the focus of my issue isn't so much the admin theme language anymore, it's the English language that I can't get out of my front end.

Cheers,
Danny

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danny_joris commented

Oh, seems like I'm mistaken in #4. Disabling English does work. It is solely an admin_language issue after all. Apologies.

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ari-meetai commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (fixed)

Great!