DrupalCon ParisMultilingual Panel

Projets Multilingues,multilingual internationalized

projects too!

Yes, I know everything is spelled wrong :)that's kinda the point

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Multilingual Panel - Overview

Our Plan• Panel Discussion, please think of questions• Three short presentations• Geared towards site builders• Real World experience on building multilingual sites• Questions and Answers

What We'll cover in the presentations• Decision points, things you should think about• Drupal 5.x, 6.x, 7.x• Localization• Translating Content, Taxonomies, and Menus

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Multilingual Panel - Doug Green

How to contact me:• doug@civicactions.com• d.o douggreen • twitter dougjgreen

 Where I work

• partner with CivicActions, DrupalCon sponsor• www.civicactions.com

 Credentials

• lots of Drupal contributions, mostly coder and search • spent the last year working on a multilingual site • CivicActions also did Amnesty International and Drupal 6.x i18n contrib work for Sony

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Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points

Drupal 5.x t()

• string registration or gettext.php• !@ instructions to translators• use php input format views/panels• use php input for cck options

be prepared to patch contrib module, especially in 5.x • missing t()'s• might not of translated content, i.e., panels titles in 5.x• 6.x is better ... partially due to work for Sony• another example, hierarchical_select

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Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points

Taxonomies• locale• i18nsync

i18nsync• Drupal 5.x "experimental", Drupal 6.x "standard"• Taxonomies• Images

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Multilingual Panel - Doug's Points

Organic Groups• each og group is a translated node • causes problems that content uploaded to one og not accessible on other ogs• solution, hack using nodeapi to reattach stuff to "default" language node• but then requires all sorts of other hacks to display things right 

 Show rareplanet.org (time permitting) and point out problems

    

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Multilingual Panel - Zohar Stolar

How to contact me:• zohar@linnovate.net• d.o. z.stolar

 Where I work

• owner of Linnovate (linnovate.net) Credentials

• Lead teams building several multilingual sites

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Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points

"English is a kind of Arabic"   (My 4 years old daughter). 

• In Drupal there's one language to rule them all, and the rest of them are only more of the same.  

• The ease of building multilingual sites, without really knowing the language.  

• Taxonomies and i18nsync - Doug covered some of this 

• Cultural issues

• Drupal 6.x: added translation to core.

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Multilingual Panel - Zohar's Points

• Themed graphics - by using naming convention, we can present localized graphics  

• Translation 404: http://drupal.org/project/translation404  

o Alters core's language switcher to always show a language switcher, even if a translation is not present. 

o On the destination page, you get a 404 page with a list of actions in all enabled languages: [translate the content / go back / go to language home] (hookable)

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Multilingual Panel - Damien Tournoud

How to contact me:• damien@tournoud.net• d.o Damien Tournoud

 Where I work

• af83, DrupalCon sponsor, www.af83.com Credentials

• conference organizer• Drupal 7.x contributions

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Multilingual Panel - Damien's Points

Drupal 7.x: some nice improvements to the multilingual support. • Refactored interface-text translation UI.• Translation contexts• Translatable fields from translation duplication to translation in place

o One of Dries' code freeze exceptions  http://drupal.org/node/282191 (TF#1: Allow different interface language for the same path)http://drupal.org/node/565480 (TF#2: Multilingual field handling)http://drupal.org/node/557292 (TF#3: Convert node titles to fields)http://drupal.org/node/539110 (TF#4: Translatable fields UI)

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Multilingual Panel - Q&A

Questions & Answers

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