I don't like translations for the admin user interface in Drupal. If I am an administrator I must be able to read and understand English (or what the module creators think English is ;) )

So please, would it be possible to add a setting to omit translations and use the original texts only for example depending on the path? If the path is admin or admin/* the whole page (including blocks and other stuff) should be displayed in original language only.

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plach’s picture

plach
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Location Venezia
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Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

I'm afraid this can't happen in D7.

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nchase commented

what does it mean? "can't happen" . This is getting a show stopper in major countries...

Drupals disability of handling multilingual environments properly is one of the greatest lacks in Drupal. We got all that EyeCandies we don't need, but not the important things... (ok, Fields in Core is awesome)

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plach
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@snicers: the bad news is that D7 went feature frozen in september 2009, the good one is it ships a new language negotiation API the makes the feature requested here implementable through a contrib module.

Edit: I forgot to mention that now it is possibile to set up language negotiation to support a session language, administrators may use the language switcher to choose their preferred language and keep it while navigating the site no matter what language prefix the URLs have.

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gábor hojtsy
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate of #322995: Provide a distinct administration user interface language option. You can use the http://drupal.org/project/admin_language module in the meantime until this is integrated in Drupal core.