Displaying Multilingual content ?

**Ibn Saeed** · 12/31/2009, 03:25

Hello

Is it possible to display multilingual content in typolight

I need 2 languages, English and Arabic.

I need to place a text link at the top of the page for changing the language to Arabic and English.

When i should click the Arabic Link for the page to be displayed in Arabic, the site should change the text orientation from Right to Left for arabic.

Is this possible in typolight ?

Please check the example here:
http://www.madinaty.com/

Click on the "????" text on the top of the site. You will see the site change from English to Arabic changing the text orientation to "Right to Left"

**Ben** · 12/31/2009, 09:09

Ibn - There are many extensions relating to multilingual websites, as seen here: http://www.typolight.org/extension-list ... ge&x=0&y=0

**Ibn Saeed** · 12/31/2009, 10:24

Originally Posted by Ben

Ibn - There are many extensions relating to multilingual websites, as seen here: http://www.typolight.org/extension-list ... ge&x=0&y=0

I see an example here who are the programmers of Translation module
http://www.macrogram.ch/index-fr.php

I see that it is possible.

But now my main concern is, since all the languages on the above website start from Left to Right, the transition was there.

What about a language such as Arabic, its from Right to Left. Would it be possible to do this ?

**Ben** · 12/31/2009, 17:26

Use the direction directive in your css:

Code:

direction:rtl;

You'll see that they used this in the css for the Madinaty site you linked to: http://www.madinaty.com/style/Arabicstyle.css
Doing a quick google search for "css right to left" yielded a ton of great resources like this one: http://fortysevenmedia.com/blog/archive ... gual_site/

**Ibn Saeed** · 12/31/2009, 17:48

Originally Posted by Ben

Use the direction directive in your css:

Code:

direction:rtl;

You'll see that they used this in the css for the Madinaty site you linked to: http://www.madinaty.com/style/Arabicstyle.css
Doing a quick google search for "css right to left" yielded a ton of great resources like this one: http://fortysevenmedia.com/blog/archive ... gual_site/

So i only need to add the direction tag in the css and typolight will display it correctly ? So no changes have to be made in typolight ?

In otherwords, typolight does support Arabic ?

**Ben** · 12/31/2009, 18:08

I think it's CSS that supports Arabic, which in turn makes all CMS's support it.

**Ibn Saeed** · 12/31/2009, 19:08

Originally Posted by Ben

I think it's CSS that supports Arabic, which in turn makes all CMS's support it.

Alright thanks.

But not all CMS's support Multilingual content. Isnt that true ?

**Ben** · 12/31/2009, 21:41

You are correct - not all CMS's are multilingual-friendly. You will probably need to create a new site root for each language. Then, create a page layout for the arabic section that has your language-specific style sheet selected.

**Ibn Saeed** · 12/31/2009, 22:11

Originally Posted by Ben

You are correct - not all CMS's are multilingual-friendly. You will probably need to create a new site root for each language. Then, create a page layout for the arabic section that has your language-specific style sheet selected.

So I can work with typolight

Excellent.

I will test it out and see how it goes.

Now my only concern is that my clients would need to edit their articles/news, but they dont require complicated admin section.

Is it possible to provide simple access for changing articles, adding etc. for the end user ?