Brief introduction of the Drupal translation system and it's capabilities.

1. Translation
in Drupal

3. i18n
l10n

4. What to translate?

5. • String
• Content

6. http://drupal.org/project/Translations

7. Modules have their
own translation

9. PO

10. GETTEXT

12. http://www.gnu.org/
software/gettext/

13. How?

18. Language detection
• URL
• Default setting
• Content language
• Browser language
• Geo IP
• User setting (cookie, session)

19. TRANSLATION
vs
CONTENT DUPLICATION

20. DEMO

22. http://localize.drupal.org/

23. Tools

25. Modules

26. i18n

27. l10n_client

28. gtrans

29. Don’t forget about
SYNCHRONIZATION

32. Don’t change the
default language after
initial set-up.

33. Do back up your
database before installing
someone else’s PO files.

34. Don’t add menu items
using the Views module
(unless they’re tabs).

35. Do enter everything in
the default language
first.

36. Don’t set Taxonomy
vocabularies to a
language.

37. Don’t translate blocks.
Just create one block
per language.