Hi,
I have been looking a bit at multilingual support in Plone
3.0 the
last few days. There are some differences when compared to
2.5 that
not everyone may be aware of. I thought I would just note
those
changes here so more people now them.
- In 3.0 PloneLanguageTool is installed by default. This is
done via
GenericSetup so there is no official way to uninstall it,
should you
want that.
- This means that in a default 3.0 install you will only
have one
language, usually English, but that depends on the
language of the
browser that you use to add that Plone Site. In other
words: when I
install Plone with my browser, the complete UI is in
Dutch. I
believe this is a major change compared to 2.5 where by
default the
Plone UI will get translated based on the language setting
of the
browser used by visitors.
To repeat: in a default 3.0 install there is no
multilingual support.
- In 3.0 you can still select more languages via the plone
control
panel of course, at the  language-controlpanel page,
so you can
make it multilingual. But you do not have the option to
disable the
display of flags. Flags are always displayed. This may
be
politically sensitive. So you miss the option from 2.5 to
display a
drop down box with the language names.
Actually, you can still do that in the ZMI if you want.
See https://dev.p
lone.org/plone/ticket/6918 for more info
BTW, I see no flag for South Africa when I select the
Afrikaans
language. I wonder if that was done on purpose precisely
because
that one may be politically sensitive. No idea. If you
want it
back, file a bug or fix it.
Actually, I do not see flags at all now. And there is no
action to
translate content. I am very sure I did see that one or
two days
ago. Did something drastically change here?? Wait, it
*is* visible
in a site that was initially made as English, but not in
an initial
Dutch site! Very strange. Can someone confirm this?
- The above is by design. It was agreed that there is no
sane way for
a default Plone site to be really multilingual, so some
options from
2.5 were taken out or hidden.
- If you want more control over the multilingual handling,
you should
install LinguaPlone. This may need a few more updates
before it is
ready for Plone 3.0, but I have not checked. If someone
is working
on this and needs help or a tester, ping me.
I am not in the i18n core, so if I made mistakes here,
please set them
straight so I can learn some more. 
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