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Scott Willhite
5/28/2010 2:05 PM
In our bi-weekly team meeting Charles Nurse gave a live demo of alpha code for work being done in content localization. Exciting stuff, especially for our international audience, some of whom received their own live demo today from Shaun Walker at the Eurpoean Day of DotNetNuke!
Especially for english speakers, its easy to forget how important content localization is. Many, however, are starting to realize that multi-language sites are not only imporant overseas but also very much in the US. The US federal government as well as many states require government (or even government subsidized) websites to provide content in multiple languages.
DotNetNuke has long supported localization of static content, with Language Packs available in some 65 languages (that we know about). Folks have been creatively managing multi-language module content for many years, but it's finally becoming part of our supported core offering.
Many thanks to the Internationalization Team for their patience and long hours of collaboration to assemble a robust solution.
18 comment(s) so far...
Re: Video: Content Localization Preview
It looks promising but i have a few questions:
You can localize the page name? In Dutch you have vliegtuig or in english airplane.
Do you have to create 1 on 1 copy of pages? Can you create a page in dutch and not create it in english?
How do you create links to localized pages?
By Martijn van Laar on
5/29/2010 8:52 AM
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Re: Video: Content Localization Preview
Very nice. Good work !
I have just a remark about the user experience in the page setting screen.
I think the concept of master language is very relative. Is it the site default language ? The user defaut language ? The language i have begin to input in the system ?
So one unique type vue of the content localisation setting and statut in the page setting screen is mayby enougth (not depending of the current language). And make it simpler for the end user and leave the ability to switch to all other languages.
By Sacha Trauwaen on
5/29/2010 8:52 AM
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Re: Video: Content Localization Preview
"Sorry; the creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain"
By thomas261087 on
5/29/2010 8:52 AM
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Re: Video: Content Localization Preview
@thomas261087 ~ Not sure why that error is shown for you? It's hosted at Vimeo and the settings for display on dotnetnuke.com are correct :-)
By Scott Willhite on
5/29/2010 8:59 AM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@Scott Willhite: It says that this is a Vimeo Plus feature and it's a private video...
By thomas261087 on
5/29/2010 10:04 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@thomas261087 ~ Drop me an email and let's see if we can figure out why you can't view it. Mind you, it's only viewable from the dotnetnuke.com domain. Drop me an email at scott AT dnncorp DOT com.
By Scott Willhite on
5/29/2010 10:09 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@Scott: Watching the video on another computer without any problems now... Was using Firefox on the other computer and maybe some plugin was causing trouble. But it's working now! :o)
By thomas261087 on
5/31/2010 12:18 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
Now the video is working I'm having the same question as Martijn Van Laar... will the page name also be translated? This is especially important for SEO!
But I'm really glad to there about the active development for content localization!
Keep up the good job!
By thomas261087 on
5/31/2010 12:17 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
We will be releasing more details as we work through the evelopment, but the "master" language is what is currently called the default.
In order to retain tab hierarchy integrity pages exist in all or no languages, but if a page does not make sense in one of the languages you can use the normal dnn permissions to hide it.
By Charles Nurse on
5/31/2010 12:17 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
any news about RTL layout support in DNN as mentioned in this link support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?ID=11605&PROJID=2
By Michael Fayez on
6/1/2010 9:18 AM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
Very interesting development. Now we can stop using 3rd party modules to have a multi language site :)
By Ulrik Motzfeldt on
6/1/2010 9:18 AM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
These updates look outstanding for a first run. Great work to Charles and the other folks!
By Will Strohl on
6/1/2010 1:32 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@Michael ~ I don't know... I'll see if I can get someone to comment. Cheers!
By Scott Willhite on
6/4/2010 4:23 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@Michael Fayez,
RTL is on our list of items (in fact I recall listing 2 blog items you wrote for reference). We'll be rolling out a series of localization enhancements, over a series of versions, and this is certainly one we'll be looking at (along with others such as culture specific stylesheets etc.).
By cathal connolly on
6/5/2010 8:01 AM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@cathal connolly,
thx for the info. I am eagerly waiting for the release of DNN with RTL support. Thx again
By Michael Fayez on
8/5/2010 2:30 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
From where do I download this videos ?
By Jaydeep Bhatt on
8/5/2010 2:30 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
Quote: Marinj
It looks promising but i have a few questions:
You can localize the page name? In Dutch you have vliegtuig or in english airplane.
Do you have to create 1 on 1 copy of pages? Can you create a page in dutch and not create it in english?
How do you create links to localized pages?
By Rino Martini on
8/5/2010 2:31 PM
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Re: Video: DotNetNuke Content Localization Preview
@Jaydeep - You can't download the videos, but they should be embeddable now (hosted at vimeo).
By Scott Willhite on
8/5/2010 2:30 PM
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