Internationalization

Submitted by jason on Wed, 02/18/2004 - 02:22

This is a collection of modules to extend Drupal core multilingual capabilities and be able to build real life multilingual sites. Some features:

Taxonomy translation (both, per language terms and translatable terms)
Multilingual variables
Multilingual blocks (control visibility per language and translate title and content)
Language selection (when you switch the site language you'll see only the content for that language)

Read a complete feature overview in the new Internationalization handbook.

Recommended add-ons

Internationalization Views, translate some Views properties (new project for i18nviews module)
Internationalization UI, simple UI, on-page translation, for small sites (WIP)
Language Icons, will add icons to language links for nodes and blocks.
Translation Overview, to have a comprehensive view of your content translation status.
Localization Client, will allow on screen translation for user defined strings (Will work with i18n 5.x-3-x or with 6.x-1-beta3, Patch pending for 6.x version)

Other related modules you may like

Language Switcher Dropdown, provides a new block with the language switcher as a drop down field.
Active Translation, shows original language version of content in listings, if content has no translation yet.
tContact, make the site-wide contact form fully translatable.
I18n Logo, upload different logos for each languages defined in your site.
Taxonomy Block, displays (translated) taxonomy in block.
Preserve language, tweaks the language links to provide independent content and interface languages.
Consistent Language Interface, provides an alternate language switching block.
Translation table, UI for quick translation of taxonomies and menus.
Translation Access, provides per-language access control for creating and updating nodes.
Menu Translation, provides an alternate UI for translating menu items
Translation 404, produces 404 pages (page not found error) when content has no translation yet.
Select translation, provides an advanced language filter for views.
i18nRedirect, for backward compatibility with i18n 5.x path aliases behavior
Migrate i18n, allows multilingual content to be imported using the migrate module.

The module development and documentation is sponsored by Development Seed

Drupal 6 Upgrade

The Internationalization package has been fully reworked to work seamlessly with Drupal 6 multilingual features. Modules have been renamed and moved around and there are some new ones. Before upgrading your site, do read the Internationalization Upgrade handbook page.