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Multiple language Ubercart website

Submitted by JeyP on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 18:21
JeyP
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Hi everybody,

I'm trying to decline an French Ubercart base website into English and German. But I didn't manage to set it up correctly. It seems like there is no real langage support for Ubercart. I was able to translate the categories with i18n but I don't know how to have acces to them correctly. For example, when I try to access the english catalog via yourwebsiteadress/en/catalog, the categories and the subcategories are not listed...
Have anyone find a way to handle a multiple language Ubercart base website?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Cheers,
Jey.
permalink #1 Mon, 04/14/2008 - 10:20
Ryan

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Jey, I think the issues you'll run into will mostly be general Drupal issues. You might find more support through the i18n issue tracker or something, although a few folks here have done multi-lingual sites in the past. There are a few issues in Ubercart modules (related to field naming flexibility) that will make this a little difficult to accomplish.

permalink #2 Mon, 04/14/2008 - 10:56
Abilnet

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Ryan wrote:
...There are a few issues in Ubercart modules (related to field naming flexibility) that will make this a little difficult to accomplish.

Thanks Ryan for the insights. As a non coder, I don't have the understanding of these multilingual difficulties, but from business point of view, specially here in Europe, multilingual capabilities for commercial web sites are rapidly coming more than important. In many cases I know for sure, a web site without real multilingual capabilities does not even exist - from the business point of view.

Nowadays European Union (EU) as a free trade zone with common strong currency (Euro) is a huge potential for businesses. Some are calculating it's even bigger than US. But it's multilingual, and that's why having real multilingual features in their sites and chopping carts, is a must for many companies.

I understand porting Ubercart to Drupal 6.X does not happen any soon, but just curious, what kind of multilingual capabilities people can expect Ubercart will have that time?

Some road-map for multilingual stuff would be nice...

my 2cents from Sunny Spain Eye-wink

permalink #3 Mon, 04/14/2008 - 18:20
JeyP
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Hey,

Thanks Ryan for your answer. But I'm totally agree with you Abilnet. Multilingual features is nowadays a real necessary for many websites.
To make it possible with Ubercart, I think that the solution may be to change the way Ubercart handle the catalog vocabulary. But the problem is that we can select only one Catalog vocabulary in the store Administration...
I'm still working on it. But some feedbacks from people that had success (or not) on making multilingual Ubercart website would be nice =). I'll let you know if I find something.

my 2cents from Rainy France Sticking out tongue

permalink #4 Sun, 05/04/2008 - 19:31
doomed@drupal.org
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JeyP wrote:
... I was able to translate the categories with i18n but I don't know how to have acces to them correctly. For example, when I try to access the english catalog via yourwebsiteadress/en/catalog, the categories and the subcategories are not listed...

How did you translate the category terms??

I'm also using i18n and i have tried everything but no matter what, i still cant get the results i want from "Localization / Search Strings" in order to translate what i want.

The Catalogue vocabulary terms never come up on the search results Sad

I'm using Drupal 5.7, Uber RC4 and i18n 5.x-2.3 .

When i tested this, i enabled "i18n Taxonomy module" and also went to "Site Configuration / Multilingual system / Translation" and enabled translation for the Catalogue vocabulary there.