URL aliases [node:language] repetition issue

Question

I have an issue with URL aliases creation. I have set my configuration as following:

The default path pattern above is the only one configured. Yet, when I create my content type instances and translate them, I get the following:

http://mysite.localhost:8082/en/search-form
http://mysite.localhost:8082/fr/fr/recherche-de-mots
http://mysite.localhost:8082/ab/ab/dfghdf

EN is the default language, but why do I get double /fr/fr and /ab/ab? These are the links created in the language link available under node contents.

REM: Generate automatic URL alias is set on all node content translations.

Update

Of course, I would like to avoid repetitions (this is my real question):

http://mysite.localhost:8082/en/search-form
http://mysite.localhost:8082/fr/recherche-de-mots
http://mysite.localhost:8082/ab/dfghdf

Answer 1

That happens because Drupal is using the language prefix to generate the language URLs, and you are using the [node:language] token in the path pattern. As consequence, the language prefix appears twice.
In the first case, as English is the default language, the prefix doesn't appear twice because [node:language] is replaced from an empty string.

Just use [node:title], instead of [node:language]/[node:title] as path pattern.

The reason for allowing the use of [node:language] is that the other method to generate language URLs is through a domain for a specific language. Suppose you set http://exemple.com has domain for the French language; with your path pattern, the URL alias would be something like http://exemple.com/fr/recherche-de-mots, which is perfectly acceptable.

Answer 2

There's also the possibility to rewrite the results of your path-field, and select "Use absolute link" (not to be confused with the similar option under "rewrite as link").

It gave me the right result.