Other Language Options
Third-party language solutions are not very common because support within Joomla is so powerful, and one free productâJoom!Fishâdoes just about everything youâd need to set up a multilingual site. It offers user on the frontend a drop-down menu to choose the language they want their site content to be in. Naturally, this requires you, the site administrator, to translate all of your articles and other site content into multiple languages.
Joom!Fish
Figure 14-14. Joom!Fish Multilingual Content Manager
Joom!Fish (see Figure 14-14) uses the I18n standard (http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/) for software internationalization and creating truly international websites. It also is a powerful tool for keeping track of translations of your content. Joom!Fish was developed by one of Joomlaâs own core developers, Alex Kempkens, so it has close ties to the Joomla Project.
Alternately, there has been another multilingual solution on the horizon for some time now called Nooku. It was created by previous Joomla developer Johan Janssens but, as of this writing, it hasnât yet been released to the general public.
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