Internationalization

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Internationalization

• An introduction to Drupal i18n
• Russell Blakeborough
• boblists_at_brightonart.org

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Multilingual Drupal

• A Drupal site can run in a number of different
  languages.
• To see the languages installed on a site go to
  Administer - Languages
• /admin/settings/language

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Languages
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Add a Language

• To add another language click on Add language
  and select from the list.
• Go to drupal.org/project/Translations to
  download the latest translation of Drupal for
  that language.
• Then go to Administer - Translate interface to
  import the translation
• /admin/build/translate

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Translate interface
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Interface and Content

• A Drupal sites users can select from the
  installed languages which one theyd like the
  Drupal interface to appear in.
• To translate a sites content we use the
  Internationalization module collectiondrupal.o
  rg/project/i18n
• Here is a simple Dutch English French page
  viewed as admin

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Home page
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Node Translations

• Users can select which language theyd like to
  see this page in.
• Were using the i18n Language Icons block here
  to display an automatic language switcher.
• To view translations of a node click on the
  Translate tab

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Translations of home
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Adding translations

• If a node doesnt have a translated version in a
  particular language yet, it will have an add
  translation link for that language on the
  Translations page.
• Various forms of translation workflow are
  available to help keep different language
  versions of nodes in synchronization eg.
  Published - outdated

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Add translation
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Translating menus

• Multilingual pages can have multilingual menu
  items to point to them.
• With the i18n Multilingual Menu module installed
  all menu items can be given a language.
• A language selector appears at the bottom of
  Edit menu item

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Edit menu item
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Multilingual Sites

• With interface content menu translation we
  have the basis for building multilingual sites in
  Drupal.
• I18n Multilingual Blocks module can be used to
  switch blocks by language.
• I18n Localization Client provides a nice way of
  translating strings that may not be provided in
  downloaded Drupal Translations.

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Case study Camart - Pure 360

• At Camart we developed an English French
  German Spanish multilingual site for
  PurePromoter Ltd. pure360.eu
• The clients requirements were for additional
  translation workflow and extensibility towards
  future full automation integration with the Big
  Word translation service via SOAP.
• We went with Drupal 6 for its integration of
  actions central i18n into the core.

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camart.co.uk

• Pure 360 multilingual
• i18n
• Drupal 6
• Big Word translation
• SOAP interface
• XML translation data
• Trados compatability
• Workflow automation