Internationalization

Internationalization

Internationalization and translation

The principle of internationalization is that it should be possible to make a Drupal site in any language (or a multi-lingual site), where only content in the desired language is displayed for any particular page request. In order to make this happen, developers of modules, themes, and installation profiles need to make sure that all of the displayable content and user interface (UI) text that their project deals with is internationalized properly, so that it can be translated using the standard Drupal translation mechanisms.

Internationalization

Different types of information in Drupal have different methods for internationalization, and different portions of the UI also have different methods for internationalizati