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net-carver wrote:

I had already made a change to make sure mlp’s pretext() routine is always the first called, irrespective of plugin load order

Way cool; didn’t realise but I should have figured you’d be several steps ahead of the game :-)

ultramega

You need to add the string “de-de” (without the quotes) to the Content > MLP > Preferences > Languages preference and then save it. That should take care of creating a new language table for you. Just take a look at the Content > MLP > Articles tab and you should then see a new column for German.

After that it’s a matter of either cloning existing renditions into German for translation or just starting a new rendition in German by visiting the Content > Write tab.

ultramega wrote:

Ahaa, ok! Does that create new table with right character settings too (not sure what it should be for german…)? Thanks for helping!

Yes, it creates the new table using a utf8 character set.

Possible to somehow hide languages which are being worked on the background? Meaning how to hide one language-link from articles and sitewide lang selector until all snippets and articles are translated?

ultramega

Turned out to be very easy. Feature added in the development code. If you want to make the change to your installation just edit the plugin and look for this code block…

function l10n_lang_list( $atts )
	{
	global $thisarticle , $l10n_language, $is_article_list , $pretext, $prefs;

	extract(lAtts(array(
		'title'		=> '',					#	Title will be prepended as a paragraph.
		'on404'		=> '', 					#	Set this to non-blank to force special 404 processing

… replace it with this …

function l10n_lang_list( $atts )
	{
	global $thisarticle , $l10n_language, $is_article_list , $pretext, $prefs;

	extract(lAtts(array(
		'title'		=> '',				#	Title will be prepended as a paragraph.
		'surpress_langs'	=> '',			#	Comma separated list of site languages to hide
		'on404'		=> '',				#	Set this to non-blank to force special 404 processing

Then look for this a little farther down (maybe a page or two) the file…

	$list = array();
	static $alangs;
	$slangs = MLPLanguageHandler::get_site_langs();

… and replace with…

	$list = array();
	static $alangs;
	$slangs = MLPLanguageHandler::get_site_langs();

	$surpress_langs = do_list( trim( $surpress_langs ) );
	$slangs = array_diff( $slangs , $surpress_langs );

… and save the changes.

Next: edit your page or form that uses the l10n_lang_list tag. Add surpress_langs="your-lang" to it’s attributes, save the form and view the result.

Hope that helps.