Changes for page Internationalization

Last modified by Thomas Mortagne on 2023/10/10

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From version < 19.4 >
edited by Silvia Macovei
on 2009/09/25
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edited by Silvia Macovei
on 2009/10/07
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Change comment: Document converted from syntax xwiki/1.0 to syntax xwiki/2.0

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2 +{{html clean="false" wiki="true"}}
1 1  #startfloatingbox()
2 -*Contents*
3 -#toc ("2" "3" "")
4 +**Contents**
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6 +{{toc start="2" depth="3" numbered=""/}}
4 4  #endfloatingbox()
5 5  
6 -1 Internationalization
9 += Internationalization =
7 7  
8 8  XWiki can be set-up to support one or various languages. As of August 2009 XWiki Enterprise supports 21 languages:
9 9  * Chinese (zh)
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27 27  * Spanish (es)
28 28  * Swedish (sv)
29 29  * Ukrainian (uk)
33 +<p/>
34 +To see the exact status for each language or if you wish to help, check our [[translation wiki>>http://l10n.xwiki.org/]] (for example you can see the [[status of translations for XWiki Enteprise>>http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XE/XWikiCoreResources]]).
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31 -To see the exact status for each language or if you wish to help, check our [translation wiki>http://l10n.xwiki.org/] (for example you can see the [status of translations for XWiki Enteprise>http://l10n.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/XE/XWikiCoreResources]).
36 +== Preferences ==
32 32  
33 -1.1 Preferences
34 -
35 35  Setting up languages is done in the Administration (link on the top right of every page).
39 +<p/>
40 +{{info}}To make use of this feature for Languages with encodings that are not ISO-8859-1, you will need to adjust the encoding for your XWiki setup as documented in the [[Encodings page of the Administrators Guide>>platform:AdminGuide.Encoding]]{{/info}}
41 +<p/>
42 +image:AdminLanguages.JPG
36 36  
37 -#info("To make use of this feature for Languages with encodings that are not ISO-8859-1, you will need to adjust the encoding for your XWiki setup as documented in the [Encodings page of the Administrators Guide>platform:AdminGuide.Encoding]")
44 +== Switch to another language ==
38 38  
39 -{image:AdminLanguages.JPG}
46 +By default the language displayed will be the one coming from the browser. However, on every page you can choose to switch between the different language translations that exist for the page. To do so click on the language name in the top right corner of the screen as shown in the following screenshots. Note that you can also force a language by suffixing a URL with <tt>language=&lt;2-letter language code&gt;</tt>. In addition you can [[configure your wiki to always use a specific language or force a single language to be used>>AdminGuide.Configuration#HLanguagesettings]].
47 +{{/html}}
48 +{{/velocity}}
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41 -1.1 Switch to another language
50 +image:LanguageEN.jpg} <-~~English~~ &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp ~~Deutsch~~-> {image:LanguageDE.jpg
42 42  
43 -By default the language displayed will be the one coming from the browser. However, on every page you can choose to switch between the different language translations that exist for the page. To do so click on the language name in the top right corner of the screen as shown in the following screenshots. Note that you can also force a language by suffixing a URL with <tt>language=&lt;2-letter language code&gt;</tt>. In addition you can [configure your wiki to always use a specific language or force a single language to be used>AdminGuide.Configuration#HLanguagesettings].
52 +//The [[Mandriva Club>>http://club.mandriva.com]] website, where 25 languages are supported on their XWiki:////
44 44  
45 -{image:LanguageEN.jpg} <-~~English~~ &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp ~~Deutsch~~-> {image:LanguageDE.jpg}
54 +image:Languages_MandrivaClub.JPG
46 46  
47 -~~The [Mandriva Club>http://club.mandriva.com] website, where 25 languages are supported on their XWiki:~~
56 +{{info}}Once you click on a language, you're forcing it and thus all pages which have translations in that language will display these translations by default when you navigate to them.{{/info}}
48 48  
49 -{image:Languages_MandrivaClub.JPG}
58 +== Edit a translation ==
50 50  
51 -#info("Once you click on a language, you're forcing it and thus all pages which have translations in that language will display these translations by default when you navigate to them.")
52 -
53 -1.1 Edit a translation
54 -
55 55  When editing a page, a panel indicates which language is currently being edited. You can always check whether you are working on the right page depending on the language you want to write in.
56 56  
57 -{image:Language_Translation.JPG}
62 +image:Language_Translation.JPG
58 58  
59 -#info("Note that all translations of one page share the same set of XWiki objects. So it is impossible to have different objects (and page tags, which are objects too) in different translations for now, but it is planed in next versions.")
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64 +{{info}}Note that all translations of one page share the same set of XWiki objects. So it is impossible to have different objects (and page tags, which are objects too) in different translations for now, but it is planed in next versions.{{/info}}

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