[Webcom] Language issues on web site

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 06/13/2012 05:49 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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> Folks,
> the translation in our current version of Drupal is not only confusing
> but also seems to not work quite right.
>
> Somebody translated the Charter Members [1] page to Greek (in general
> a good idea) but instead of creating a "New Translation" overwrote the
> English version. I reverted the edit and then tried to copy the Greek
> version into the Greek node but Greek does not show up in the
> translation tab?! But it does show up on the main languages list in
> the left border.
>
> TO see the results it also makes a difference if you are logged in or
> not and what language settings are selected in the profile (if logged
> in).
>
> User interface and content language switch:
> * When switching user interface language, switch also the content language
> * Keep separated user interface and content language
> * Use global options
>
> Never quite got what these options are supposed to do either.
>
> I have been struggling with all these "feature" since we have them and
> never really got satisfying results. Probably I am too dumb to use
> this correctly but if I am not significantly dumber than the rest of
> the crew then statistically at least half of the potential
> contributors will fail in the same way (after getting frustrated for
> some time). This is inefficient. Ideas what we can do to change this?
>
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
>
> [1] https://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
>
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Hi Arnulf,

Thank you for picking up this issue. Alex also corrected a similar issue 
a few days back.

Those errors are part of a translation project in Greek that the Greek 
Chapter has started recently.
Unfortunately the translators are not expert users in drupal and this 
has caused those issues. I am sorry for the inconvenience.
I will now hold this project until we have this issue/process figured out.

Best regards,
Angelos


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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos