Languages
This section is for public bodies that serve people in more than one language: managers who set the language policy, administrators and site builders who set it up, editors and translators who write and translate, and trainers. It explains what Exponential provides, with links to the reference documentation, and states the gaps.
Contents
Pages in this section
| Page | Answers |
|---|---|
| Languages at a glance | What Exponential offers for languages, and the gaps |
| Content languages and interface languages | The two kinds of language and where each is set |
| Adding a content language | How to add a language in Setup > Languages |
| A siteaccess per language | The settings of one language version of a site |
| Language addresses: path or host | How each language gets its own address |
| Redirecting to the visitor's language | How the start page leads to the visitor's language |
| The language switcher | How to build an accessible switcher, and hreflang |
| Fallback rules for untranslated content | What visitors see when a translation is missing |
| Always available content | Which items show in every language and how |
| Main language of an item | What the main language is and how to change it |
| Second and third official languages | The complete setup for two or three official languages |
| Minority and regional languages | Locales that ship, partial translation, working with speakers |
| Indigenous languages of the Americas | The 22 locales that ship, from Alaska to the Andes, and how to publish in them |
| Custom locales for unlisted languages | How to add a language that has no locale file |
| Right-to-left languages on public sites | What a public design needs for Arabic, Hebrew and others |
| Right-to-left in the administration | What staff get in a right-to-left interface |
| Administration interface languages | Which interface translations ship and how complete they are |
| Interface translation fallbacks | Which translation a regional locale shows |
| Translator roles and permissions | A role limited to one language |
| Translation workflow and approval | Backlog, approval per language, tools |
| Translating an item step by step | How translators add and update translations |
| Plain language | Plain language guidance and how to build it in |
| Writing for readability | Rules per field for editors |
| Glossaries of terms | A multilingual glossary as content |
| Multilingual search | How search behaves per language, built-in and Solr |
| Dates, numbers and currency per language | Formats from the locale, time zones, limits |
| HTML language tags and accessibility | lang on pages and parts, WCAG, what is audited |
| Removing a translation safely | Removing languages and translations without losing records |
| The 62 language limit | How many content languages an installation holds |
| Testing a multilingual site | The test language and the checks before launch |
| Languages checklist | Everything above as one list |
Reading order
- Managers: "At a glance", "Second and third official languages", "Fallback rules", "Plain language", the checklist.
- Administrators and site builders: "Content languages and interface languages", "Adding a content language", "A siteaccess per language", "Language addresses", "The language switcher", "Multilingual search".
- Editors and translators: "Translating an item step by step", "Main language of an item", "Writing for readability", "Glossaries of terms".
Related pages
- Content languages
- Languages in Exponential
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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