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i18n

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Multilingual interface handling has been in in Tiki since the early versions. Therefore, it was possible to use Tiki in any of 30+ languages. Multilingual content handling was added in 1.9.x It makes it possible for a page or an article to have a corresponding page or article in another language.

Tiki is the "reference implementation" for the Cross-lingual Wiki Engine:

Wishlist

Open

RatingSubject Submitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) Multilingual, RTL, CSS; Plugin modal / form element and directions are wrongBernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist5525
  • Regression
2022-12-122022-12-134
Bsfez-13 Dec 22
(0) Multilingual, Trackers; When multilingual is disable, previously set multilingual fields shouldn't be displayedBernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist7749
  • Consistency
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
  • Developer Training
  • Easy for Newbie Dev
2022-01-242022-01-242
Bsfez-24 Jan 22
(0) Need advice on escaping nasty stringhman7856
  • Support request
2020-08-142020-08-141
hman-16 Aug 20
(0) Only a testing-bug for Umlauts äöüamette25
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Regression
2008-11-232009-04-241
sylvie-19 Mar 09
(0) Page translation module with Reference language (pivot_language) parameter broken on tiki-index.phpPhilippe Cloutier25
  • Regression
Louis-Philippe Huberdeau2009-10-242009-10-240
(0) Pages with same name not allowed? Mulilingual siteshfalk525
  • Error
  • Feature request
2008-08-302011-11-102
luci-04 Dec 08
(0) Please branch off sub-languages of Germanhman610 easy60
  • Feature request
2020-08-142020-08-140
(0) Please explain GUI dialoghman310 easy30
  • Support request
2021-03-102021-03-1022
hman-14 Mar 21
(0) Please separate PHP and Javascripthman5525
  • Feature request
  • Consistency
2021-04-212021-04-2616
hman-08 May 21
(0) Please update German localizationhman510 easy50
  • Usability
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
2020-08-112021-03-0532
hman-09 May 21
(0) Possible fundamental flaw in the language system's designhman5525
  • Feature request
2020-07-022020-07-045
hman-04 Jul 20
(0) Problems with RTL title (anchor) when the string ends with a number (LTR)Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist5525
  • Usability
2021-06-072022-02-255
luci-24 Feb 22
(0) Quick Edit module should detect and warn about special characters in page namesMarc Laporte315
  • Feature request
2008-05-302012-03-290
(0) Security, Captcha questions; It should be possible to translate the captcha questions if multilingual is enableBernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist5525
  • Feature request
  • Developer Training
  • Easy for Newbie Dev
2022-03-082022-03-080
(0) Side-by-side edit of two languages, with a "translation is in sync" button to save both wiki pagesMarc Laporte525
  • Feature request
2010-01-072012-03-290
(0) Simple and quick way for admin to change or lock HIS language onlyyoni525
  • Feature request
2011-02-132011-02-130
(0) Since upgrade from 12 to 15: weird characters in non-english notification emails (wrong encoding?)Xavier de Pedro5525
  • Error
  • Regression
2016-06-232016-06-230
(0) Some widely spoken languages missinghman3927
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Consistency
2020-10-142020-10-142
hman-17 Oct 20
(0) Text for translation buried so deep it's unfindablehman8540
  • Usability
2021-05-072021-05-072
hman-09 May 21
(0) The A - B - C... links is not Multilingualyoni525
  • Feature request
2011-05-022011-05-021
marclaporte-16 Jan 12

Pending

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) Reporting spelling corrections as a non-developerademoor1 low52008-11-242008-11-241
marclaporte-29 Aug 09
(0) Problem in adodb when using Chinese characters in browser titleoutcrop9 high45
  • Usability
2009-06-032011-10-081
arild-08 Oct 11
(0) Using "best language" breaks links when generating webhelpRick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties735
  • Error
2008-05-212008-05-210
(0) tiki-integrator is not aware of character set: remote pages with iso-8859-1 are not properly shownXavi (as xavidp - admin)525
  • Usability
  • Feature request
sylvieg2005-08-112021-09-301
Bsfez-30 Sep 21
(0) tiki export trackers with accented charactersMarc Laporte25
  • Error
2006-07-122021-10-111
Bsfez-11 Oct 21
(0) translation to portuguese (PT)myoli25
  • Patch
myoli2007-07-162007-07-161
CriaCAC-11 May 11
(0) php option "...&bl" does not work with "structure"nuhets25
  • Usability
nuhets2008-01-302008-02-212
nuhets-21 Feb 08
(0) Editing a wiki page: Footnotes and Comment are unclear labelsMarc Laporte420
  • Usability
  • Consistency
  • Easy for Newbie Dev
Luis Henrique Fagundes2005-06-222021-09-292
Bsfez-29 Sep 21
(0) wiki: automatic description of changesMarc Laporte315
  • Feature request
2008-04-162008-04-160
(0) Translated pages should not be orphansMarc Laporte210
  • Usability
2005-06-282021-09-303
Bsfez-30 Sep 21

Closed

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve? PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) Editor & localization Dashboard (help contributors with priorities)Marc Laporte840
  • Feature request
  • Patch
2009-08-292017-06-180
(0) Discussion: Should we change from language.php to native .po files?Marc Laporte9 high45
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
2009-09-072013-06-050
(0) Can not change article language - page not found errorneuron525
  • Error
Philippe Cloutier2009-12-122010-11-230
(0) Make preferences i18n-awareMarc Laporte630
  • Feature request
2010-02-092018-04-261
marclaporte-26 Apr 18
(0) 5.0RC1 - wiki Editing option "check orthography" ->em error : table "babl_words_fr" missingBernard TREMBLAY735
  • Error
  • Consistency
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
2010-08-032010-08-030
(0) 5.0RC1 - wiki Editing option "check orthography" ->em error : table "babl_words_fr" missingBernard TREMBLAY840
  • Error
  • Consistency
Philippe Cloutier2010-08-042010-08-190
(0) Article translation doesn't work.soulhunter735
  • Error
  • Usability
  • Consistency
Philippe Cloutier2010-08-292010-11-230
(0) Cannot change an Article's language from its Translate pagemarcor525
  • Error
  • Patch
Philippe Cloutier2010-11-182012-01-160
(0) Setting site language to 'german' makes site/content unreadable (better descreption needed)Gregor (gta74)25
  • Usability
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2011-01-112011-03-110
(0) get_strings.php populate language.php file with invalid stringsRodrigo Primo25
  • Error
2011-05-122011-07-050
(0) get_strings.php doesn't collect properly strings with single quotes in some casesRodrigo Primo25
  • Error
2011-08-192011-08-190
(0) 8.x & 6LTS: machine translation brokenXavier de Pedro525
  • Error
  • Support request
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2011-10-222013-11-223
lphuberdeau-25 Oct 11
(0) Multilingual option in tracker field prevents from filling fieldsJean-Marc Libs735
  • Error
2012-01-102017-11-030
(0) PATCH: messu-compose hangs on french localejosefg630
  • Error
  • Patch
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
Pascal St-Jean2012-04-032017-06-185
josefg-07 Sep 12
(0) Strange translation behaviourArild Berg25
  • Usability
2014-04-012014-04-241
jonnybradley-24 Apr 14
(1) Editing a Plugin via plugin helper icon on a translated page looses the translation assigned!luciash d' being 🧙735
  • Usability
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
Samy mwamba, Jonny Bradley2015-09-082018-09-309
luci-30 Sep 18
(0) No need to set page language again and again efter editing Plugintracker icon optionmacnific630
  • Consistency
2015-11-072018-09-300
(0) Side-by-side translations have usability issuesJean-Marc Libs525
  • Usability
2016-02-232016-04-041
Jyhem-04 Apr 16
(0) Can't change language on homepageJean-Marc Libs315
  • Bug
Jean-Marc Libs2018-02-152018-03-273
Jyhem-20 Feb 18
(0) User information link is broken if language is not english (user preferences -> tracker)Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist810 easy80
  • Usability
2013-09-032013-11-031
pascalstjean-10 Sep 13

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Old discussion pages

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Alias

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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