[TYPO3] language menu and realurl (issue with L=0 language)

[Ralph Grier]

Hello,

I have a multilingual site with the following structure:

www.domain.com/
www.domain.com/de/
www.domain.com/fr/
www.domain.com/es/
www.domain.com/ru/

(although the www.domain.com/en technically works, I don't like to use it).

in my realurl configuration, I have English as language 0, german as
language 1, french as my language 2 and so on.

I just created a new language menu with typo3 (previously I was replacing
markers).  The language menu works great, except for one minor detail.  I
have the following code:

temp.flags= HMENU
temp.flags.special = language
temp.flags.special.value = 0,1,2,3,4
temp.flags.1 = TMENU
temp.flags.1.noBlur = 1
temp.flags.1 {
  NO.stdWrap.cObject = HTML
  NO.stdWrap.cObject.value = <img alt="English" src="/images/us.png"
/><br/>English || <img alt="Deutsch" src="/images/de.png" /><br/>Deutsch ||
<img alt="Français" src="/images/fr.png" /><br/>Français || <img
alt="Español" src="/images/es.png" /><br/>Español || <img alt="Русский"
src="/images/ru.png" /><br/>Русский
  NO.allWrap = <div class="langmenu">|</div> || <div
class="langmenu">|</div> || <div class="langmenu">|</div> || <div
class="langmenu">|</div> || <div class="langmenu">|</div>

  ACT < .NO
  ACT = 1
  ACT.doNotShowLink = 1
  ACT.allWrap =

  USERDEF1 < .NO
  USERDEF1 = 1
  USERDEF1.doNotLinkIt = 1
  USERDEF1.allWrap = <div class="langmenu"><a href="/">|</a></div> || <div
class="langmenu"><a href="de/">|</a></div> || <div class="langmenu"><a
href="fr/">|</a></div> || <div class="langmenu"><a href="es/">|</a></div> ||
<div class="langmenu"><a href="ru/">|</a></div>
}

The problem is that at such time, when the language menu generates links for
english (which is language L=0), the links generated include the /en/, for
example

www.domain.com/en/somelink.html which is not what I want.  I want it to
generate:
www.domain.com/somelink.html without the /en/

I have traced this result to the following.  If the link is internally
generated as L=0, then the /en/ will show from realurl, if the link is
generated as L=   (nothing), then the english page still displays, but the
/en/ portion of the link does not display.  This is how I would like the
language menu to work.  Does anyone have any idea how I can get a language
menu not to induce realurl to include the /en/.  Perhaps for language =0 is
there a way to get it just to generate L=  (nothing) = or is there a setting
for L=0 not to set L at all with respect to realurl at least?

Thank you very much.