By rusdvl on

Hi guys,

I am creating a bilingual website and I have installed the i18n module. I've activated the 'Enabled, with translation' in the 'page' content type and installed the language and everything. But when I switch over to that language and try and create a new page, it fails... no errors come up or anything, it just doesnt create the page.

Any ideas why?

Cheer

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tsega commented

It works fine for me, what is your language? Do you have your own writing system? Maybe I can try it for you on my system and see if the same thing happens.

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rusdvl commented

i installed arabic. i dont speak it but i need to have it in this project.

when i click on the save button it shows me a message of the title and the body and the tile is a link but the link is "http://localhost/v/mysite/ar/node/" so basically it doesnt create it... could it be a conflict with path_auto?

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tsega commented

You could disable pathauto and check it if it works.

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rusdvl commented

never mind... my own stupidity... since i dont know the language i was clicking on preview not save... and hence it was not creating it... AWKWARD...

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tsega commented

AWKWARD...

Not really, cause you don't know the language and it is expected. Do you also know Arabic is a rtl (right to left) language? Maybe that also had some effect there. Good to know you figured it out. Cheers!!!

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tryitonce commented

Hi Vitali,

you actually raised an important aspect for multilingual sites.

There should by a system of separating the language and the menu. May be it is somehow already there - just not clear.

When a Russian speaker, for example, uses a site he may like to see the content in Russian - but might feel comfortable enough to use the menu in English for consistency. This would apply to the user role as well as to the admin role.

In you case the content would be Arabic and the menu could still be in English or any other language you choose.

The problem with the changing menu if the language changes is also that the order of the items may not be the same - so blind guessing and clicking the 3rd item form the top hoping it is the "Permission" menu ( example from Admin_menu) - might just not work.

So - if anyone has cracked this - let us know. Thanks ....