Multilingual Drupal

Multilingual Drupal Gábor Hojtsy, Acquia

1 User interface Content*

1 User interface Localization (L10N) Internationalization (I18N) Content*

1 Locale module ★Set up languages ★Manage user interface localization

1 UI localization ★Drupal.org releases ★Localize.drupal.org ★Ftp.drupal.org

1 Download and use ★Localize.drupal.org/ download

1 How many modules? (1+40)*number of languages

1 Updates? ★Download again ★Upload/import again ★No, please no!

1 Localization update ★l10n_update module ★Works like update.module ★Protects local changes

1 Contribute back ★Join localize.drupal.org group ★Use l10n_client module to touch up and contribute

1 Recap ★Locale.module manages languages ★l10n_update must to maintain localizations ★l10n_client to touch up and contribute back

1 Hot tip ★Check out l10n_install

You are building multiplesites in one site. Yeah.

Content, content, content★Not just nodes, ok?★Think settings, blocks, content types, views, panels, menus, etc.★User/admin contributions

Stumbling block #1★My content type properties are not translated!★My forum vocabulary is not translated!

Model for translation(0) Leave it alone(1) Assign language(2) Assign language + group related items(3) Translate in-object

Model for translation(0) Leave it alone(1) Assign language(2) Assign language + group related items(3) Translate in-object Eg. localization

Apply this to menus(0) Leave it alone admin area menu(1) Assign language language speciﬁc(2) Assign language + group related items(3) Translate in-object language variants same menu, translated labels

Apply this to nodes(0) Leave it alone ?(1) Assign language blog post(2) Assign language + group related items(3) Translate in-object press releases, polls og nodes, product nodes, polls

Apply this to everything(0) Leave it alone(1) Assign language(2) Assign language + group related items(3) Translate in-object

Build it for nodes (0) Leave it alone (1) Assign language locale + setup (2) Assign language + group related items (3) Translate in-object translation.module entity_translation contrib module

Wait, entities?★Nodes★Users★Comments★Taxonomy

Not that rosy after all★Settings★Blocks★Views★Panels★Webforms★Flags★Rules★........

Build it for nodes (0) Leave it alone Core (1) Assign language locale + setup (2) Assign language + group related items (3) Translate in-object translation.module entity_translation contrib module

Build it for paths (0) Leave it alone Core (1) Assign language locale (2) Assign language + group related items (3) Translate in-object “i18n.module” N/A

Build it for the rest... (0) Leave it alone Core (1) Assign language “i18n.module” (2) Assign language + group related items (3) Translate in-object “i18n.module” “i18n.module” - i18nstrings

Build it for contribs (0) Leave it alone Contrib (1) Assign language (2) Assign language + group related items (3) Translate in-object Contrib*

Enterprise ★Translation workﬂows ★Quality control ★Outside translators ★Translation memory

Enterprise ★Translation workﬂows Actions, Rules ★Quality control ★Outside translators “XLIFF Module” ★Translation memory

Lingotek ★Focuses on node translation ★Integrates with content translation ★Menu item translation with i18n ★Translation itself outside of Drupal

Lingotek

Icanlocalize ★Translation management module ★Set up translators with queues ★Queue up content for translation ★Local, Google translate or pay-per-word ★Can integrate with other providers ★Works with more Drupal objects

Icanlocalize

i18n Sprint CampMay 11-15th, i18nsprint.drupalevents.de

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Multilingual Drupal

by Gábor Hojtsy on May 09, 2011

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