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

By Benjamin Melançon
on 08 Oct
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i18n what's the difference between Language switcher Translations block

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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...

 
Now I've looked at the

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...

Posted by Benjamin Melançon on Tue, 2007-10-09 08:10
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Link: http://drupal.org/node/179991

Posted by Benjamin Melançon on Fri, 2007-10-19 15:57
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