This document discusses Drupal's support for multilingual and internationalized websites. It covers the Locale and i18n modules for managing languages and translating content, paths, and other site elements. It also addresses challenges in translating different entity types as well as options for professional translation workflows using modules like Lingotek and Icanlocalize.

1. Multilingual Drupal
Gábor Hojtsy, Acquia

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User interface
Content*

4. 1
User interface
Localization (L10N)
Internationalization (I18N)
Content*

5. 1 Locale module
★Set up languages
★Manage user
interface localization

6. 1 UI localization
★Drupal.org releases
★Localize.drupal.org
★Ftp.drupal.org

7. 1 Download and use
★Localize.drupal.org/
download

8. 1 How many modules?
(1+40)*number of languages

9. 1 Updates?
★Download again
★Upload/import again
★No, please no!

10. 1 Localization update
★l10n_update module
★Works like
update.module
★Protects local changes

11. 1 Contribute back
★Join localize.drupal.org
group
★Use l10n_client module
to touch up and
contribute

12. 1 Recap
★Locale.module manages
languages
★l10n_update must to
maintain localizations
★l10n_client to touch up
and contribute back

13. 1 Hot tip
★Check out l10n_install

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15. You are building multiple
sites in one site. Yeah.

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

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

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

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

20. 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

21. 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

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

23. 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

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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

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

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

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

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

33. Lingotek

34. Lingotek

35. 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

36. Icanlocalize

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38. i18n Sprint Camp
May 11-15th, i18nsprint.drupalevents.de

39. Thanks
@gaborhojtsy