By sabre0 on

Before we started our website development, I confirmed with my web designer that drupal fully supports multiple languages and that it is not extremely complicated to convert an english website to, say, a dutch one. Now, after many months of work, when I ask him to convert the site into other languages, he is telling me it will be a complicated and lengthy process.

Of course, I was expecting some time expense but how complicated it is and what kind of elements are involved? The website is a fairly simple site with very limited graphic elements. It is mainly a text-based site at the moment.

Thanks,

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brucepearson’s picture

brucepearson commented

It's not too complicated to make your site multilingual and translate it to other languages. Of course it can depend on the complexity of your site.

http://drupal-translation.com/content/setup-multilingual-site

We've also been working on the translation management module.
http://drupal-translation.com/content/drupal-translation-management

This module reduces the work involved with getting you pages translated and makes it easy for you to get your content professionally translated.

sabre0’s picture

sabre0 commented

Thanks for the answer Bruce.

I have a simple question: do I need to translate all the content text from English to the other language and feed it to Drupal or will Drupal convert it to the other language itself?

Many thanks,

S

brucepearson’s picture

brucepearson commented

You will need to translate all the content text to the other languages.

hoffk’s picture

hoffk commented

So, if you need to translate all the content text to other languages, when you edit a page in your default language, will it automatically synchronize with your added language or do you have to manually edit all changes too?

Thanks
Ken

super7749’s picture

super7749 commented

Really？
I will have to give it a shot

dinakaran.ilango’s picture

dinakaran.ilango commented

http://hojtsy.hu/multilingual-drupal7
this link is sufficient for understanding drupal multilingual funtionality