AIUI, 'und' only tells that the language for information being described is 
undefined, not that is not language dependent.

There exist a standard for this: 'zxx' explicitly describes non-linguistic 
content. As per BCP 47, "The 'zxx' (Non-Linguistic, Not Applicable) primary 
language subtag identifies content for which a language classification is 
inappropriate or does not apply."

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de Karen Stevenson [[email protected]]
Date d'envoi : jeudi 21 avril 2011 11:26
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Objet : [development] Translatable fields

I'm trying to sort out how our fields are/should be handling translation in D7. 
I have date fields, which should not be translatable, being marked as 
translatable. I have been digging through the code to figure out how I can 
force them to not be translatable.

The Field crud has a setting called 'translatable', which defaults to FALSE, 
but the Field UI sets translatable to TRUE for every field created in the UI. 
There is no place in the core UI to set a default for translatability in the 
field info and I can't see any way other than blunt force altering the data to 
change the behavior of a field created in the UI to keep it from being 
translated.

I am running into problems now where Views are broken because I tried to create 
untranslatable fields (using 'und') while new fields use the site default 
language instead of 'und', and the language column is getting joined into the 
view because the field is 'translatable'.

I see from a few blog posts, like http://randyfay.com/node/88, that we are 
recommending that people install the Entity Translation module to allow them to 
identify fields to translate, but it appears that anyone who does not have that 
module enabled (i.e. a core install) will end up with all fields marked as 
translatable and the language value for the field populated with the site 
language.

I guess I have to just leave date fields alone and go with the flow, assume 
they are all translatable even if I don't want them to be. But I'm wondering if 
anyone has any other ideas for how to handle this in D7.

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