By kirkage on

We currently have a Drupal 6 website as well as a separately maintained Spanish version of the website with slightly different content that we are planning to roll in to Drupal 6 with locale and i18n. However, seeing that Drupal 7 may not be too far off I want to ask opinions.

I noticed that the i18n module doesn't have a D7 version yet, making it seem that it's unneeded and may be part of core. I've also not been able to locate any concrete information on what internationalization will be available in D7 to figure out a plan.

As with any upgrade, it does appear that the modules used will have D7 versions or are already in core.

Mostly what we require are:

Translated content
Translated menus
Translated blocks
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I suppose the bottom line is, will there be any distinct advantage to waiting for Drupal 7 as opposed to using locale/i18n with Drupal 6?

If we were to go the Drupal 6 route, will there be complications in upgrading to Drupal 7 with the translations intact?

Thank you for your time and any help is appreciated.

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Comments

yfreeman’s picture

yfreeman commented

http://drupal.org/project/translations

pretty much any language is available.

If you are building your own module with it's own texts. Be sure to pass it through the t() function. And include translations for the module.

kirkage’s picture

kirkage commented

I'm not looking for the admin interface to be in any language other than English, only the content to website visitors.

Thank you for your response.