drupal i18n - internationalization

Drupal i18n - Energy Union energyunion.eu

i18n – Multilingual Drupal26th May 2010 @ Oracle - London

Russell BlakeboroughBrightonart Ltd.


Brightonart

• Based in London and Brighton

• Multilingual web development

• Open source technologies


Internationalization

• What are the challenges of multilingual operation?

• Regional differences• Languages• Translation

The Rosetta Projecthttp://rosettaproject.org


Multilingual Sites

• Technical development

• Translation team• Translation

management• Auto translation –

Google APILeo Reynolds

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


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/


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


What needs translating?

• Nodes (pages)– diagrams – videos?

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

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


Translation Workflow

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

editors• Automated translation

workflow– commissioned translation

house


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


Characters & Alphabets

• International fonts• UTF-8• Characters vs.

Alphabets• Right to left• Page layout –

amount of text


Energy Union

Supported by:


Energy Union

• 5 languages now

• 13 in total

• Bulgarian next

• Fallback to English

• Drupal 6

Supported by:


Installed Languages


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


Editing Workflow

LanguageEditors

Translators

Editors

Super Editors


Roles


Translate Page


Edit Page


Special Fonts


Image Fallback


Menu Translation


Policat Campaigning Tool


Vocabularies


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


Summary

• Who will translate?• Translation workflow• Technical

commissioning• Allow flexibility

– new territories bring surprises

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


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