DrupalCon Paris 2009: Projets Multilingues

Projets Multilingues, multilingual internationalized projects too!

Doug Green (Civic Actions), Zohar Stular (Linnovate), Damien Tournoud (AF83)
SESSION: http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/projets-multilingues-multilingual...
SLIDES: http://www.slideshare.net/douggreen/drupalcon-paris-muiltilingual-panel
VIDEO: ??

• i18n
• Use t() for all strings in custom modules
• D5
  • Must visit page where string is to register change
  • Don't translate inside the bracket for tokens [user:user-raw]
  • Use PHP input format in Views and Panels so you can use t()
  • Taxonomies
    • Locale
    • i18n Sync
    • tids are different for each term
  • Nodes
    • Different nids for each translated version
    • No OG solution for D5
• D6
  • Easy to build multilingual site without know the language
  • Content translation in core
  • i18n takes strings in views headers, panels, cck titles and translates
  • Single tids for language versions (localized terms)
    • Can do separate tids if there is not a match for all languages
  • Using naming conventions can help localize image
    • imagename-$lang.jpg
  • http://drupal.org/project/translation404
  • CSS sprite file for each language especially for RTL languages
• D7
  • Translatable fields
    • Instead of new nodes
    • Uses form API
    • Makes OG possible
  • Fixes to be made during code freeze
    • A focus on content translation
  • Admin Settings for URL
    • Always use default
    • Path
      • site.com/en/node/1
    • Subdomain
      • english.site.com/node/1
  • Gotchas
    • Caching the wrong home page
    • Don't know how comments will be handled
      • Issue that there is only one node now