[xwiki-users] Another language question

Sergiu Dumitriu sergiu at xwiki.com
Fri Mar 7 05:43:03 CET 2008


Dowson_Jim at emc.com wrote:
> Ludovic writes:
>> Note that our handling of multilinguism is different than Wikiepdia. 
>> Wikipedia links documents on the same subject in different wikis (one 
>> per language).
>> In XWiki we make one document have multiple languages. The same URL
> will 
>> have different content.
> 
>> By default the user will receive the one that has the lanugage of its 
>> browser.
> 
> So as you probably know, our European brethren's ability to read other
> languages is better than that of the new world ;-)
> 
> Is it easy/possible to switch between language pages on the same url?
> (German user wants to read the English version)
> 
> I see the Language flag in the upper right hand corner - is that how you
> switch? What happens to attachments, comments etc...

Unfortunately, attachment and comments are the same for all the 
languages, using the default XWiki code.

> PS: Vincent - the documentation page you linked to is not clear (to me)
> on this use case. 
> 
> Thanks in advance!


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