[TYPO3] Special localization need

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hello again,

I was a bit still asleep and missed an important point... :-)

The solution you give is OK to change the default language in a frontend 
view. But the problem remains for backend editing/localizing.

I defined default language as English, that is I needed to add language 
records to my root, namely French, German and Italian with 
sys_language_uid 1, 2 and 3, 0 being English.

When I create a content element it is defined as "default language" 
which I remain with a pageTS to read "English" and get the Britain flag 
also.

Thus playing with config.language and so on I may choose another default 
language for the frontend and with realurl, if I define a preVar for 
English (=0), I get my website in the default language without prefix or 
in one of the 4 languages with prefix. OK.

But the user still has to first create content in English to be able to 
translate it later.

I think, in order to go to the end with this problem, I should create a 
fourth language record in my root for English, user would then have this 
when he chooses to translate his page:

(default)
French
German
Italian
English

That is, he may type his master content in whatever language he likes 
and then translate it to one of this other language. Depending on the 
default language, I could then say that the English version for instance 
is either the sys_language_uid = 0 or the sys_language_uid = 4. I think 
it will work.

But what would be really great would be to hide the language record 
which is already "present" as default language. Thus hiding the 
sys_language_uid = 4 when default language is English and hiding 
sys_language_uid = 1 when default language is French.

Is this possible?

I would then have all cards in hand to achieve my goal!


-- 
Xavier