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What's the difference between Language Switcher and Translation block?

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 8, 2007 - 10:39am
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Deep in this old thread, "Looking for internationalization use cases and application feedback" - http://drupal.org/node/88417 - a user wrote:

I'm not sure what I did wrong but the Language Switcher block failed to work on mine site. I've to use Translation block instead

Good enough for me to start out with Translation as the block, since they look identical anyway...

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i18n what's the difference between Language switcher Translations block

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Now I've looked at the

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 9, 2007 - 7:10am.

Now I've looked at the source code and Agaric has proudly posted answers to this on the i18n issue queue-- the code is different, in the call to a translation.module function (translation is a sub-module of i18n and provides the Translation block as an alternate, translation-aware version of the simple language switcher.)

Link when we find it...

Link:

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 19, 2007 - 2:57pm.

Link: http://drupal.org/node/179991

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