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How is this possible and how can I programmatically set the
translations for my field(s)?
You can load language overrides with ConfigurableLanguageManager::getLanguageConfigOverride, set values and save:
\Drupal::languageManager()->getLanguageConfigOverride('fr', 'field.storage.node.field_example')
->set($key, $value)
->save();
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Drupal multilingual features are very versatile and can cover most if not all cases. It is still a fairly complex feature and it is necessary to understand some concepts before you know how to configure everything to satisfy a particular need.
The most important concept to understand in your case is the two-part nature of the multilingual system. One part ...
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A simple solution in such cases would be to remove the language switcher and provide for translated content only modal links:
<a class="use-ajax" data-dialog-type="modal" data-dialog-options="{"width":800}" href="/fr/node/1">French version</a>
You could add the links to the node, in a template or preprocess hook. Or create a ...
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The Views list is a config entity list and these are listed override free:
ConfigEntityListBuilder::load
public function load() {
$entity_ids = $this->getEntityIds();
$entities = $this->storage->loadMultipleOverrideFree($entity_ids);
// Sort the entities using the entity class's sort() method.
// See \Drupal\Core\Config\Entity\...
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I was able to reproduce your issue in a fresh Drupal 8.7.5 installation.
I reported the issue in Drupal core issue tracker.
Also, here are a screenshot in which French Views names are displayed in an English interface:
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Just to add to prkos's excellent accepted answer, I found that once I configured my website according to his instructions, if I really wanted to let end users use /fr/ language path prefixes, thereby making pages accessible without full-site switching at paths like /fr/node/1, I could do so via the following .htaccess / mod_rewrite rule:
RewriteRule "^fr/(.*...
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You can just call getTranslation like this:
$node_translation = $node->getTranslation('LANGCODE');
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Use /admin/config/regional/language/detection to set how language is detected. Add the language switcher module someplace to let a user change language. I find that when I switch a language, menu items adjust to the current language. So create the menu item to /somelink and change my language to Japanese, change the link to /ja/somelink when the menu ...
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