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[Kristina Hoeppner <1296407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd prefer a solution that doesn't involve special characters /
delimiters as they are always awkward for regular users.

In the LMS I used several years ago which we then repurposes as CMS for
a conference, the developers implemented a language switcher. When we
clicked on a flag, the text box would switch to the other language. In
this case, we had only two languages, which doesn't work if you want to
allow for more.

The languages that the user users can be different from the interface
languages, thus the user should be able to define the language
themselves, e.g. via drop-down list. then they could enter text in the
different language. A question is how many different languages should be
provided for. Ideally, they would be able to provide different text for
every text input, which is A LOT. And sometimes they might also want to
upload a different file.

Thus, for some items it may not be worthwhile to provide a translation
interface because they could just upload a different file or create a
different text box. On the other hand, if you want to have the
convenience of creating a page and then switching into a different
language and have all the content already there that you then overwrite
with the other language, then we'd need to be able to translate all
artefacts.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296407

Title:
  Multilinguality of Mahara artefacts

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara supports different language packs for the web interface of the
  individual user account, but it isn’t possible to have portfolio pages
  in two languages at the same time (for example a presentation
  portfolio with a CV in German and one in English). To achieve this it
  would be necessary for artefacts to contain values in different
  languages.

  The main problem are not labels (which can be in different languages),
  but artefact values, which can not be in more than one language at a
  time.

  In the terms of multilinguality it would be also good if the user
  would have the option of selecting in which language the page should
  be displayed.

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