Chapter 8. Multilingual and Internationalization

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes to make that your site is multilingual and internationalized:

  • Translating administrative interfaces
  • Translating configurations
  • Translating content
  • Creating multilingual views

Introduction

This chapter will cover the multilingual and internationalization features of Drupal 8, which have been greatly enhanced since Drupal 7. The previous version of Drupal required many extra modules to provide internationalization efforts, but now the majority is provided by Drupal core.

Drupal core provides the following multilingual modules:

  • Language: This provides you with the ability to detect and support multiple languages
  • Interface translation: This takes installed ...

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