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Including multilingual capabilities within custom functionality with multilingual capabilities from the start

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Including multilingual capabilities within custom functionality from the start

Imagine you have a global Drupal site with several languages. One market wants to add custom functionality for just the English language. From a technical standpoint would it be better to develop the custom functionality with multilingual capabilities by default?

I understand this is a high-level question, but was wondering on the pros and cons. The custom functionality would fit well with other languages, so two specific questions are for instance:

  • Is the consideration of multilingual often more expensive than developing the monolingual version?
  • On the long-term is it better to have the multilingual version from the start instead of adding it in a later phase? (updating code after functionality was pushed live).