Multilinguism
Sections
Linguistic elements
The management and the creation of multilingual content is always a delicate thing to organise. We will see in this section how to manage the (...)
Multilingualism
SPIP is designed to manage a multilingual website. We can distinguish several possibilities for what a multilingual website might mean: Having (...)
Articles
Language files
The language files are stored in the lang/ directories. These are PHP files named with a prefix and a language code: prefix_xx.php.
Content of (...)Multilingual possibilities
There are a number of ways of developing a multilingual site with SPIP, for example: create a sector (a section at the root of the site) for (...)
The environment’s language
SPIP passes the language requested by the site visitor to the first template, which can be retrieved by using the #ENVlang function within a (...)
The syntax of language strings
Language-specific strings, known as "idioms" within SPIP, are the codes assigned to the existing translations in the files stored in the lang/ (...)
Polyglots (multi tags)
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This means that multilingual elements can easily be written within templates without needing to use language codes and (...)#LANG_DIR
Returns the writing direction
Choosing the navigation language
By default, when you navigate to view an English article, the interface components are translated into English.
By using the language (...)