Localization and internationalization projects present challenges due to their complexity, involvement of many people, and need for diverse expertise. TYPO3 provides tools to help with localization, including configuration options, extension support, and best practices for the frontend. Extensions can help manage translations and promote localized content to search engines. While demanding, TYPO3's internationalization capabilities enable successful localization projects.

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Localization and Internationalization using TYPO3
Alexander Wahl

2. Agenda
> Challenges in internationalization projects
> localize TYPO3
> extensions from TER dealing with translation
> promote your translations to Google

3. Company profile - digiparden
> Employees: 15 human beeings , 2 cats
> Location: Schwäbisch Gmünd
> Customers: DAIMLER, Mercedes-Benz, TRUMPF, LAPPGROUP, FUSO
> Expertise in
– content-management
– language management
– product-data management
– application development using TYPO3, FLOW3 and ZF
– IT-consulting

4. Internationalization vs. Localization
Internationalization
> Process of designing a software application to adapt to various
regions and languages without engineering changes
> Synonym’s:
– globalization
– “world-readiness” (Microsoft)
Localization
> Process of adapt a internationalized software product to a specific
market by adding
– translations
– regional content (e.g. images, colors, )
– locale-specific information (e.g. time, currency, etc.)

5. Challenges in
internationalization projects
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcelgermain/3840003650/sizes/o/in/photostream/ (picture by Marcel Germanin)

6. Challenges in internationalization projects

7. Localization is a time consuming project
19.800 pages 260.000 content objects 15 target languages
Exporting content manually
1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days and 3 hours
Importing content manually
1 year, 3 months, 3 days and 6 hours
approx. 1.634.700 words

8. localize TYPO3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035610542@N01/6868716258/ (picture by cszar)

9. localize TYPO3
TYPO3 configuration
TypoScript setup
TCA configuration
TYPO3-Core methods
Application labels (XLIFF)
Tipps and tricks

10. Basic setup
Character sets
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['BE']['forceCharset'] = 'utf-8‘
Database connection
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['setDBinit']= ‘
SET CHARACTER SET utf8;
SET NAMES utf8;
SET SESSION character_set_server=utf8‘;
Database field size
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['multiplyDBfieldSize'] = '3';
Filesystem
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS'][‘UTF8filesystem'] = true;

11. Setting up languages

12. Frontend languages
Optional
config.sys_language_softMergeIfNotBlank
config.sys_language_softExclude

13. Extension development - database setup

14. Extension development - database setup

15. Extension development – TCA configuration

16. Extension development – TCA magic (l10n_mode)
L10n_mode: mergeIfNotBlank, exclude, NoCopy and prefixLangTitle
L10n_display: hideDiff, defaultAsReadonly
L10n_cat: text,media
@see doc_core_tca

17. Extension development – flexform
disable language handling
in flexform

18. Frontend development

19. Frontend development
better solution

20. Frontend development
better solution

21. Frontend development - extbase/fluid

22. Frontend development - XLIFF
Overriding XLIFF Localization Files
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['locallangXMLOverride][]
Clearing XLIFF-Cache
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['lang']['cache']['clear_menu'] = TRUE;
Parsing XLIFF-Files - TYPO3 4.6
t3lib_l10n_parser_Llxml::getParsedData($sourcePath, $languageKey, $charset = '')
@deprecated
t3lib_div::readLLXMLfile

23. Tips and tricks
Adding fields from pages to pages_language_overlay
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['FE']['pageOverlayFields']
disable translations in list-view
mod.web_list.hideTranslation = * or list of tables
overriding locallang via TypoScript
plugin.[name]._LOCAL_LANG.[ISO2]{
key = value
}
Hide pages if no translation exists
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['FE'][‚hidePagesIfNotTranslatedByDefault'] =
boolean

24. Tips and tricks
Useful methods
$GLOBALS[‘TSFE’]->sys_page->getRecordOverlay($table, $currentRow,
$sys_language_uid);
$GLOBALS[‘TSFE’]->sys_page->getPageOverlay($row, $sys_language_uid);
t3lib_BEfunc::getRecordLocalization($table, $uid, $sys_language_uid);
t3lib_Befunc::isTableLocalizable($table);
t3lib_transl8tools::getSystemLanguages($page_id);
t3lib_transl8tools::translationInfo($table, $uid, $sys_language_uid);

25. extensions from TER
dealing with translation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41864721@N00/4743121155/ (picture by ecstaticist)

26. Ext:language visibility
> multilanguage fallbacks
> fallback configuration per language
> visibility concept for single pages, content elements and news

27. Ext:l10nmgr - overview
> Online translation via TYPO3 backend
> Offline translation via XML (DéjàVu, memoQ, SDL TRADOS TagEditor, SDL
Trados Studio 2009, SDL PASSOLO) and ms Excel format
> Automation for different parts of the website and for multiple target
languages
> CLI-support
> Up- and downloading exchange-files via FTP

28. Ext:l10nmgr - configuration

29. Ext:l10nmgr – online translation

30. Ext:l10nmgr – offline translation

31. Ext:snowbabel
Extension translation for content-managers and non-technical backend-users

32. Promote translations
to Google
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e2/4650891118/ (picture by eisenrah)

33. URL structures
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.de/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

34. Multi-lingual and multi-regional websites
Sitemap
Provide Sitemap in default language
Google ignores “lang” attributes and DTD definitions
<html lang="en-US" class="page-content">
Working with character encodings
Use UTF-8 as encoding
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=de&answer=139394

35. Multi-lingual and multi-regional websites
Crawling and indexing your multilingual and multiregional website
> Avoid crawling of automated translations
> Provide cross-links between the different languages
> Avoid automatic redirections based on the user’s perceived language
> Don’t use cookies to show translated versions
> Use rel="alternate" hreflang="x" to target other languages or other
regions
> Use rel= "canoncial" href="x" to point to the main language
– Canoncial en_US >> alternate en_GB or en_AU
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=de&answer=139394

36. Conclusion

37. Conclusion
Localization projects are difficult because
› of the complexity
› many people involved into the process
› the knowledge in different knowledge fields
with TYPO3 you have a great , internationalized, software product to succeed