multilingual permalinks

[dinsdale]

Thanks very much for the explanation of this thread. The counterexamples that immediately leap to my mind are .ca with english and french and .ch for german and french. But rapidly gets far more complicated than that. But just these examples alone introduce multilingual issues that cannot be readily resolved with any consistency in terms of permanent links.

I appreciate the points here regarding the dependency of design on how google behaves, but it's a sad commentary to be sure, isn't it? It's come down to "what would google do"!

[dinsdale]

Incidentally, I initially thought this thread possibly had something to do with IDNs, but on closer inspection realized that it was not. However, IDNs might lend themselves more to the goal unequivocal localization.

[joy]

Probably a change in URL is not easy as a modification about name of post.
In former case you have to use two different wordpress installations, in latter, I think, it is easier to implement.

[johdah]

Regarding the example of .ch for german and french.

Take a look at monster.ch where you have to choose language... german or french
The links takes you to http://deutsch.monster.ch/ or http://francais.monster.ch/

Thats fine, different domains are used for the two languages but
Take a look at http://www.monster.de and http://www.monster.fr and you will see that those pages are almost identical. Make sure you don't use duplicate content. Google is not a big fan of that. This was just an example of a multilingual site and how domains are used in the .ch example.

[Follow the rabbit]

I'm bumping this one since it's one of the best requests i've seen so far and would make qtranslate nearly perfect.
I'm willing to support this in any way I can if Qian or anyone else is up for the task.

Thank's again for all the help and support Qian!

/Chris

[Daniele]

Hello,
I read this thread and I have a similar proposal for the behavior of permalinks under language switch:
simply change postname, cathegory and all that is contained in permalink with its translation as decided
by its Author. Example
lang1 ->

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http://www.sitename.something/2008-09-27/lang1-cathegory/lang1-title/

switches to
lang2 ->

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http://www.sitename.something/lang2/2008-09-27/lang2-cathegory/lang2-title/

It maybe somewhat easier to translate only the custom parts of the permalink than the sitename including
its extension something (=com, biz, org, it, fr, en, us et cetera). Thank for your kind attention.

Daniele

P.S. I corrected a little mistake, inserting the /lang2/ field in the desidered permalink structure: also, I would
like to remember that not all the owners of a link http://www.sitename.something own other links
http://www.sitename.something2, http://www.sitename.something3, ... et cetera.

[john]

Does anyone know how to create a subdomain for the permalinks?

So de.mysite.com/content instead of mysite.com/de/content

[eduplessis]

[quote="Daniele"]Hello,
I read this thread and I have a similar proposal for the behavior of permalinks under language switch:
simply change postname, cathegory and all that is contained in permalink with its translation as decided
by its Author. Example
lang1 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/2008-09-27/lang1-cathegory/lang1-title/[/code] switches to
lang2 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/lang2/2008-09-27/lang2-cathegory/lang2-title/[/code]
It maybe somewhat easier to translate only the custom parts of the permalink than the sitename including
its extension something (=com, biz, org, it, fr, en, us et cetera). Thank for your kind attention. :D
[/quote]

i think the best way its...
lang1 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/lang1/2008-09-27/lang1-cathegory/lang1-title/[/code] switches to
lang2 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/lang2/2008-09-27/lang2-cathegory/lang2-title/[/code]

or

lang1 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/2008-09-27/lang1-cathegory/lang1-title/[/code] switches to
lang2 -> [code]http://www.sitename.something/2008-09-27/lang2-cathegory/lang2-title/[/code]

and a option to choose i we want to show the lang # after the http://www.sitename.something/

[ph23man]

I used to use Gengo and I recently switched to qtranslate because I wanted to upgrade to 2.7. I'd first just like to say this is a very well-thought out plugin especially in regards to ease of use. Qian Qin, you've built an awesome multilingual plugin - thanks!

I just wanted to add my vote for multilingual permalinks. I think qtranslate is by far the best multilingual plugin for Wordpress currently. But still, I feel the one key thing missing is multilingual permalinks.

[john]

Hopefully multilingual permalinks will be something for the future