Hi all,
MT5 looks great, I really like the website and blog model. Fits the way my mind works.
I'd really like to use this on an upcoming website, but we need to have the ability to support the management of content in multiple languages.
On the front end, users would choose their language when they arrive at the site, and see content specific to them.
Previous versions of MT (as far as I can tell) didn't provide much functionality to help in the creation of multilingual content. Sure, you could manually set up "/en/" "/fr" etc. urls and manage the content manually, but with multiple users from multiple locations doing translation this becomes difficult.
Will MT5 offer any additional functionality to help with this?
Darren.
MT team, please respond, I am very interested in this as well :-)
+1
I, too, would like to have this. But I must disappoint you, nothing of this in mt5 so far...
I'm working on a multilingual site and here's the gist:
- use Apache content negotiation to detect the browser language preferences (Google is your friend for tutorials)
- have a link to all languages on every page (so users at someone else's PC may change language if the browser pref isn't right for them, plus get the search engines to index all languages)
- have one site (blog) per language setup in MT, each with page extensions such as ".html.xx" or ".php.xx" where xx is the language (e.g. en for English, fr for French etc.)
Main benefits:
- visitor-friendly
- each page has only one URL regardless of the language (the URL can omit the .xx or even the whole .html.xx part)
Main drawback:
- you have to maintain one site per language, and be careful that all similar pages are using same basename for the URL
Granted, it would be über cool if one could create one entry on one site, then add translations from that entry, but I didn't find a way to do that.
I have an old tutorial about this issue and if anyone is interested I can share at my blog. The solution I have is done by custom fields and php. That way you can maintain all translations at just one entry.
Please, let me know and I will update and rewrite it.
Grace, I am interested in this so please go ahead and tell me when. Thanks!