Accepted Talks

TYPO3 - I18N, L10N, Translation

Daniel Zielinski, Andreas Otto

On the background of two recently published extensions, who aim at helping TYPO3 administrators and editors to translate content into different languages, this session will give a deeper insight regarding the localization (L10N) of content in TYPO3.

This session will explain what L10N is and what L10N means for TYPO3 and how well L10N is supported in TYPO3.
During the session the following topics will be discussed:

Introduction to L10N
- What is it
- Who is involved
- Why is this an important topic

What has to be localized

L10N-Processes and their organization in a company
- Content creation
- Identification of translatable content
- Extraction of localizable content
- Translation (internal vs. external)
- Graphics L10N
- Multimedia L10N
- Layout & Design L10N
- QA
- Publication

L10N support in TYPO3
- L10N concept (Language overlays, one-tree-per-language)
- Possible L10N scenarios
- L10N view
- Internal translation
- External translation (Content extraction problem, available solutions)
- How different are the two extensions locmanager and l10nmgr compared to eachother
- Future plans: Merge of the two extensions to provide one solution which offers support for professional CAT-tools

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Daniel Zielinski works a research assistant and teacher at the Linguistic Data Processing Section of Department 4.6 at Saarland University, Germany. The focus of his work lies in Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) and Multilingual Content Management. Daniel Zielinski is the developer of the extension t3_locmanager.

Andreas Otto works as TYPO3 and web developer for d.k.d Internet Service GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. Apart from his work for d.k.d Internet Service GmbH he administers the writing authorisations on the SVN Repositories of the projects TYPO3 and TYPO- 3xdev at SF.net on behalf of the TYPO3 community.