Common Multilingual Problems Print

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What goes wrong.

THE SWITCHER GOES TO THE HOMEPAGE

It should go to the equivalent page.

Configuration, usually.

UNTRANSLATED INTERFACE TEXT

Buttons, forms, emails.

Use the site in each language and look for it.

WRONG LANGUAGE SERVED

Almost always caching not configured for languages.

LAYOUT BROKEN IN ONE LANGUAGE

Longer text overflowing.

Design for the longest, not the shortest.

SEARCH ENGINES SHOWING THE WRONG VERSION

The language signals are wrong or incomplete.

DUPLICATE CONTENT WARNINGS

Versions not properly declared as alternatives.

TRANSLATIONS OUT OF DATE

No process. Put one in place.

EMAILS IN THE WRONG LANGUAGE

The notification system does not know the customer's language.

Check your plugin supports it.

WHAT TO CHECK FIRST FOR MOST OF THESE

Caching configuration, and the language signals.


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