drupal i18n - internationalization

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i18n – Multilingual Drupal26th May 2010 @ Oracle - London

Russell BlakeboroughBrightonart Ltd.

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Brightonart

• Based in London and Brighton

• Multilingual web development

• Open source technologies

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Internationalization

• What are the challenges of multilingual operation?

• Regional differences• Languages• Translation

The Rosetta Projecthttp://rosettaproject.org

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Multilingual Sites

• Technical development

• Translation team• Translation

management• Auto translation –

Google APILeo Reynolds

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/

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Language vs. Locale

• Locale = language + region

• en-GB .. en-US– Small differences in

language– Differences in date

format

• Content may vary in different territories

boulanger.IEhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/fkmr/

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Language Selection

• Locale detection• Language selector

menu• User’s language• URL prefix

– eg. energyunion.eu/en/tour

kan_alphhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kan_Alph.jpg

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What needs translating?

• Nodes (pages)– diagrams – videos?

• Menus• Blocks• Taxonomy• Module text• Drupal itself

Henri Bergius from Finlandhttp://www.flickr.com/people/15087210@N00

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Translation Workflow

• Base language?• Notification automation• Site editors – Translation

editors• Automated translation

workflow– commissioned translation

house

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Fallback

• Normally we don’t have translations for all content

• Fallback to base language eg. English

• Complex fallback:– Catalan > Spanish >

English samaritainhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alphabet_samaritain_kadosh.png

amharichttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alphabet_%C3%A9thiopien_amharique.png

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Characters & Alphabets

• International fonts• UTF-8• Characters vs.

Alphabets• Right to left• Page layout –

amount of text

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Energy Union

Supported by:

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Energy Union

• 5 languages now

• 13 in total

• Bulgarian next

• Fallback to English

• Drupal 6

Supported by:

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Installed Languages

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Editing Workflow

• English base mostly, some German

• Multiple English editors using revisions

• Translators sent base content

• Super Editors make pages

• Language Editors correct in place & provide ongoing maintenance

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Editing Workflow

LanguageEditors

Translators

Editors

Super Editors

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Roles

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Translate Page

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Edit Page

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Special Fonts

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Image Fallback

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Menu Translation

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Policat Campaigning Tool

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Vocabularies

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The New Semantics

• Taxonomy translation• Normalised Co-

occurrence Analysis• Module:

Taxonomy NCO • ‘Matchy matchy’• RDF - SKOS

the new romantics by theopiehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/opie/

• http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_nco

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Summary

• Who will translate?• Translation workflow• Technical

commissioning• Allow flexibility

– new territories bring surprises

shirokazanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shirokazan/

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russell@brightonart.co.uk

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