Multilingual D7 Progress
Drupal 7 promises a revolution in usability. It's a major new release and many developers are already building on it.
Basic support for multilingual content is now in Drupal core. However, for complete multilingual D7 sites, the core itself is not enough. Critical functionality it missing and comes from contributed modules.
This page explains which module does what and D7 readiness.
| Function | Description | Handled by | D7 status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Node translation | Translating of node content | Drupal core | Implemented |
| Interface translation | Translation of interface | Drupal core | Implemented |
| Content selection | Determines what content gets displayed in menus, etc | i18n core | Being done now |
| Block translation | Handle translating of blocks and having blocks per language | i18nblocks | Not implemented |
| Menu translation | Handle translating of menus and having menus per language | i18nmenu | Not implemented |
| Taxonomy translation | Handle translating of taxonomy and having taxonomy per language | i18ntaxonomy | Not implemented |
| Variable translation | Handle translating of variables such as site name, site slogan, etc | i18n core | Implemention started |
| Translation Management | Manage translation work flow of all content types | translation managment | Partial Implemention |
