I've developed a site in english (admin & front end) but the site needs to be in a Dutch. Locale and i18n modules have been installed.
Dutch has been added to the list of languages and set as default in admin/settings/language.
I'm now wondering how I can translate strings like the date output? For ex, when I print out a date from a view, it still outputs the days and months in English.
In admin/settings/language/configure I've selected "path prefix only" but I don't get the language code in the url's and links. How is this achieved?
Thanks
You can translate month names, days and much more using Translation interface. Navigate to:
Administer -> Site Building -> Translate interface (admin/build/translate) -> Search (admin/build/translate/search)
and use the search form to locate the string you wish to translate.
Since you've already added Dutch to your site, you can download entire Dutch translation on http://localize.drupal.org. Site is currently in beta, so you will have to login using your Drupal.org credentials.
Use this link to export Dutch translation of Drupal. Just make sure you choose All in one file format so you can easily import it in your site using Translate interface -> Import
To get the language code in the URLs you will have to enable Multilingual support for each content type you need translated (admin/content/types) by opening edit and selecting desired option under Workflow settings -> Multilingual support.
After that make sure that you specify Dutch/English language while adding or editing nodes.
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I need to change Kentico date format to dd/MM/yyyy. I tried following the settings here
https://docs.xperience.io/k12sp/configuring-kentico/reference-web-config-application-keys#ReferenceWeb.configapplicationkeys-Userinterfaceculturesettings
but looks like I'm gonna need a CMS.resx pack. Where do I get this language pack for Australia (en-AU)?
The language packs are available for download on the Devnet portal. However, in case of EN-AU, if you do not require translation of the resource strings to the Australian English (I guess the EN-AU is pretty much the same as EN-US in this case), you can simply copy the CMS.resx file and rename it CMS.en-au.resx.
Or, you can use the CMSDefaultUICulture web.config key and set the default UI culture to EN-AU and then, the system will take the CMS.resx as the EN-AU culture's resource file. For more details please see the documentation on setting up multilingual UI.
I'm trying to setup proper solution for multilingual website generated using Jekyll. I checked some plugins and tricks without plugin. But still not sure how to achieve it. I found that it's possible to generate output of every language into subfolder. Eg.:
/en/ contains English version of website
/cz/ contains Czech version of website
But in my case every language will be published on own domain (example.com, example.cz). And this is the moment where I'm getting some troubles with the implementation. When I'll have every language in own folder (/en/, /cz/) this means that also {{page.url}} and parmalinks will contain that /en/... or /cz/... part.
Could you help me to find the trick I need to use? What is correct setup in this case?
Note: The only solution which is close to my situation is this https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2016/5/13/building-a-multilingual-website-in-jekyll/ Here is not possible to implement language switcher because solution excludes all files in alternative languages. (When I'll be on www.example.com/contact I need to be able to switch to Czech alternative www.example.cz/kontakt.)
Two different urls makes sense to me. Google will have a different page rank for your sites, but that is the only downside I can think of. I would set the language and set alternate tags. You can use your page front matter to fill the alternate tags. If you succeed in building them from one repo, you might be able to automatically match the different language versions of your pages with an english page identifier (for your alternate tags). Source
My requirement: I want to add one more language say Spanish in footer section of language drop down list on Electronic UK storefront. Once we select the Spanish language our website content should change to Spanish Language.
I have read the hybris wiki related to Internationalization and Localization but I could not find any optimal solution.
Please help me in this to achieve the above functionality.
Open hmc or backoffice. Open your current base store, navigate to languages and add spanish to the list.
Notice, that there will be no data for the language, so your homepage might look very empty.
If you want to add localizations for the cms and product content, you have to add the language to all your catalog versions. Otherwise, your language wont show up in the cmscockpit/productcockpit.
Everything that appears on your homepage as words separated by dots (e.g. "search.placeholder") is not saved in the database. Those are spring messages. They are maintained in a file in your storefront. Find them in
/mystorefront/web/webroot/WEB-INF/messages/
by the names
base_XX.properties
theme-my-theme_XX.properties
site-my-site_XX.properties
where XX is the isocode of your language (in your case es). If the file does not exist, create it. You can use the english file (e.g. base_en.properties) as a template and change the values to spanish ones. Beware, there are a LOT!
There might be more pitfalls, but those are the ones, that came to my mind.
Am i correct in assuming that i need a nav webpart for each language with the correct corresponding culture code set?
I have on cms:CMSListMenu in my .Master page, and i'm going to be starting the french version of the site.
Your assumption is NOT correct. Kentico is made to use a single template and/or webpart for multiple languages. You do have the opportunity to use different templates per language but unless you need it for something very specific, it's not needed.
The webparts are smart enough to use the current language which has been selected/set on the website. There are some additional configuration options you can set like mixing the default culture with the current culture. What this means is if you are viewing the site in French and have a page in English but not French, it will display the English version and in place of the missing French version.
I'd suggest starting out with the Kentico localization documentation if you haven't already.
I can't agree with you assumption. You can specify culture for you control, so it will always use that culture, otherwise it should be using current culture.
I am creating a Multilingual web site and I use a resource manager for each language.
when user select a language all pages use the selected resource bondles.
as entire sites only is available in one language,how search engines crawl the other languages ?
or does search engine crawl optional provided languages ?
As you know, when you have a static multilingual website that has separate page for each language, you don't have any problem with search engines. Whereas, each page has an unique url.
But in dynamic applications, you don't have separate page for each language and have to use resource instead, you can add a new language or remove an already existing language and so on.
Therefore, we have to use Url Rewriter/Routing for generating unique url for each language. Check the following example out.
Suppose we have a webform in the following url and our application supports two languages (e.g. English United States en-US, English Great Britain en-GB).
www.domain.com/home.aspx
There are some problems, we have permanent url for all of languages. Thus, search engines will be index the default language anyway. The solution is simple, you have to generate separate url for each language by using Url Rewriter/Routing as follows.
www.domain.com/{country}/{language}/home.aspx
Afterwards, you have to inference the specified culture name from the above url and set the current Culture and UICulture properties. Thus, the requested page will be shown in desired language.
The sitemap should be generate programmatically and uses the same way as above, in this case.
www.domain.com/{country}/{language}/sitemap.xml
You have to inference the specified culture from the above url and generate sitemap dependent on culture. To introduce available sitemaps to the search engines you have to use robots.txt that should be generate programmatically as well.
you might be using cookies/sessions for remembering selected language, right?
Neither of them affects search engine. They simply ignore cookies. However, If u rely on session variable for remembering selected language, in the absence of cookies each time new session will be created canceling the language selection.
Ankit