For the situation you describe, it seems that the i18n module works just fine. For your pages, enable multilingual support on the admin/content/types/page, and have it disabled for forum posts. You just need to make sure that the site multilingual display option are set correctly for what you want under admin/settings/i18n. (I recently worked on something similar for 
<a href="http://www.casainpiazza.ch">www.casainpiazza.ch</a>)<br><br>Unless you have incredibly specific needs, I don&#39;t think you need to do any modifications to the i18n module. <br><br>Florian<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Srimal Jayawardena</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:srimalj@gmail.com">srimalj@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>I need to have a drupal site which supports 3 languages where all pages must have versions<br>representing each of the 3 languages.<br><br>However the discussion forum should be common to all 3 languages. <br><br>How is this possible in drupal? Is there a specific module to handle this?
<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><span class="sg"><br>Srimal.<br><br>
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