[TYPO3-dev] Proposal: Advanced Language Settings

[Daniel Pötzinger]

This is getting a proposal to deal with multilanguage webpages. I would 
like to have some meanings and further ideas.

Introduction:
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On large Multilanguage webpages there are special requirements regarding 
to language and language fallback. On a concrete example its better to 
understand the different requirements:
The default language is English. The website should also have an 
australian. german, mexico and spanish website:

.	General Localisation and Fallback feautures. (one-tree)
.	If there is no translation for Australia the webpage should fallback 
to English (default language)
.	If there is no translation for germany -- the page and also non 
translated CE should not be shown.
.	If there is no translation for Spanish -- the translation for mexico 
should be shown. Means a fallback to language mexico.
.	The translator should be able to explicitly hide or show a certain CE 
or page.
.	The translator should be possible to explicitly create a page which is 
only visible in his language


Limitations of TYPO3 standard
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.	Translator cannot create new CE or pages
.	Fallback and visibility behaviour can only be set global and therefore 
not for certain CE or pages
.	Only editor for default can control page visibility and structure.
.	Different global language settings on a per language basis in nearly 
impossible.

3. Solution
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With an extension it should be possible to set several language settings:

Per language (in website languages record):
.	Define the fallbackorder: Means to define which is the alternative 
language that should be shown in the case an element is not available in 
this language.
.	Fallbackorder can be more than one language. It can also include the 
default language or not.
.	Define the default setting for new elements (pages and CE)


Per element (page/tt_content):
.	Define the languagevisibility.
.	For each language you have the options:
	o	Show if in fallback  (Means the record is visible if a 		translation 
in the defined fallbackorder exists)
	o	Show if translated (Means the record is only shown if it is really 
translated in the certain language)
	o	Yes (Always show -- the element. If not translated then the default is 
shown)
	o	No (Hide and do not show)
.	(The default option is set in language record -- see above)


3.1 Permissions of a Translator
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A Translator has the permissions to:
.	Set the visibility options for the languages he is responsible for.
.	So he can hide default elements
.	Create new elements:
o	This elements have the visibility set to "NO" for all languages where 
the editor has no access.


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Please feel free to add any ideas/comments.