What's the status for file translations? On 5/15/07, Gabor Hojtsy <gabor@hojtsy.hu> wrote:
Hi,
Seems like a status report is in order, so people know what is in, and what needs to be looked at still. There are only two weeks left until code freeze, so those who think language support in Drupal 6 is important would be welcome to come out with their reviewer hats.
What is in Drupal 6 for multilanguage support:
- "locales" are replaced by "languages" (we know a lot more about languages: their native names, direction (RTL or LTR), languages can be weighted, we use the new BCP 47 language codes, etc)
- language based paths and domains are supported
- automatic language detection based on browser settings is supported
- nodes can have a language associated
- the locale tables are capable of storing translations for user defined strings (BUT this is not possible yet, read on!)
The two most important things that should be done, with patches for you to review:
- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields and so on by storing translations of their string properties with the locale infrastructure, enabling import/export and simple editing: http://drupal.org/node/141461 (also watch this video: http://hojtsy.hu/drop/dtvideo.mpeg )
- translation support for nodes by relating nodes together (and possibly their revisions): http://drupal.org/node/142280
We have other smaller issues lingering, but these two are the ones we can't manage without your valuable input and review! Unless we get reviews on these issues and we can manage to get a polished version of these into Drupal 6, it will not be the multilanguage release many people hope it to be. It would be sad to miss this opportunity for world domination.
Gabor
-- Regards, Johan Forngren :: http://johan.forngren.com/