Joomla Multilinguality
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The document discusses Joomla's multilingual capabilities, including language packs, content creation in multiple languages, and third-party extensions for translation. It covers character sets, encoding standards, and methods to switch languages, as well as auto-translation tools and crowd-based translation platforms. The content is aimed at providing an overview of managing multilingual content within Joomla, with references to resources and extensions available for users.
Joomla Multilinguality
- 1. Joomla & Multiple Languages (multilinguality) Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo
- 2. Languages in Joomla core Language packs languages/xx-XX/*.ini (where xx-XX can be: en-GB, en-US, de-DE, nl-NL, fr-FR) administrator/languages/xx-XX/*.ini Language Overrides Within the Language Manager Content languages Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo
- 3. About languages Spoken languages vs. written languages Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo Sanskrit, Latin Real language vs. fictional languages Klingon, Bork Variations Left-to-right (LTR), right-to-left (RTL) Political conflicts (Chinese “Tibetan” / Tibetan)
- 4. Character sets Character encoding UTF-8 (current standard) ISO-8859-15 (outdated, European including Euro sign) KS X 1001 (outdated, Korean) Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo Stuf unicode, multibyte PHP functions
- 5. Locale Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo Base language en, nl, de Language plus territory en_US, nl_NL, nl_BE, de_DE Language plus territory plus codeset en_US.UTF-8
- 6. Translating content Create a content item (article) Select a language Write your content in a WYSIWYG editor Connect your content to other content Associations tab Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo
- 7. Third party extensions Falang (fork of JoomFish) LanternFish Josetta (AnythingDigital) Some Yireo stuf Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo
- 8. Switching languages Core based (Language Filter plugin) Language Switcher module Setting in the User Profile Adding a URL prefix (“/en/”) Yireo Language Domains plugin Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo
- 9. Autotranslating content Translation engines Google Translate Microsoft Translation Service (formerly known as Bing Translate) Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo Frontend JavaScript widget Backend Yireo GoogleTranslate extension Yireo BingTranslate extension
- 10. Crowd-based translation Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo Transifex Open Translators (group for Joomla extension translations) Crowdin Getlocalization.com
- 11. tweet @yireo Presentation “Joomla & Multilinguality” - http://slideshare.net/yireo Jisse Reitsma (jisse@yireo.com) - Twitter @yireo