Multilingual support

[niral098]

Hi! Thank you for your hard work, guys! It's good to see the ongoing progress of Dkan.
We are working on an opendata Dkan app with React frontend(D10) and have a question regarding its multilingual support(Spanish language). We want translations of /home, /datasets, /publishers, /about. Is it like we need to define custom translation pages within React? And is it possible to translate individual datasets(content data) with the help of Drupal's own content translation? Thank you!

[dafeder]

Hi @niral098, just want to be clear, are you talking here about simply having a Spanish-language site or having a multi lingual site in Spanish and English/some other language?

I will say that we have unfortunately not done much testing yet with datasets and content translation. There are DKAN sites out there in other languages but none I know of yet in multiple languages. The DKAN API for instance has no provisions for multiple translations of the same content; it assumes everything is in the site's default language. Certainly it is a gap that needs to be addressed.

[dgading]

I have not tried translating individual datasets, since that data would be coming from the metastore API so I don't have solution for that.

For static pages, we did start a PR a couple of years ago, but it never was fully implemented. (https://github.com/GetDKAN/data-catalog-app/pull/100/files) using https://react.i18next.com/. With this library, you can create use their language detector and its hook will pull the correct text from the translation in the i18n.js file.

[niral098]

Hi @dafeder @dgading I was talking about the multi-lingual feature. I understand that it is not supported at this point. But, I will look into the i18next thing for sure. Thank you for your time and support.

[dafeder]

No problem! Would be great to hear more about your project and if there's other ways we can support.

[niral098]

@dafeder Thank you! Your support means a lot to us.

[dafeder]

Also, there is now a multilingual DKAN 2 site live that I was previously unaware of! https://datos.cadiz.es/.

See PRs against our FE repos to bring in multilingual functionality:

GetDKAN/data-catalog-components#164
GetDKAN/data-catalog-app#100

We are overdue to give these a close review but trying to prioritize better i18n support this year.

[niral098]

Hi @dafeder Thank you very much. I will check the PRs.