Folks:
I inherited a v6.00-303 PF site that supported two languages, English and Polish. The site was configured with a Language Chooser in the right hand corner, allowing visitors to choose the language using a 2-item pulldown ("English" and "Polski"
or simply by clicking on a British or Polish flag. All good -- for a while.
Well, the site got hacked, v6.00 is generally considered to be full of security problems, so my first task as webmaster is to upgrade to PF v7.0x.
What's relevant about the upgrade is that the Language Chooser infusion was specific to v6, and won't work in v7. The developer has abandoned the project, so no hope there.
I've searched everywhere and found only two language switchers for V7, essentially the same code, requiring manual patching of maincore.php. Not great from a long-term maintenance view. Maybe that will work...
My questions:
1. Are there other alternative Language Choosers for v7?
2. What is the underlying language support model for PF? Tekkies can install multiple locales, Admins can set the default language, and users can individually switch among supported languages, right? But for users to set their own language they must navigate to their Profile settings, correct? What if they don't comprehend the default language?
In other words, assuming multi-locales are common, why isn't there much more Language Chooser support?
3. Is there a more appropriate place to discuss this issue?
TIA,
Henry