All Drupal contents are base on node. Whatever contents you create, it has a url http://<drupal_root>/node/<node_id>. For each content, you can customized the URL alias but think about if you have 100 nodes, you will not enjoy setting the each alias manually. It’s better to pass the job to PathAuto.
I am not familiar with the character encoding. I have a ISO-8859-1 string(Big5). After i convert it to UTF-8 by the utf8_encode() function, garbage characters are shown in the HTML. Finally, i found another way to convert Big5 to UTF-8.
Localization with Ubercart is somehow a bit difficult. Assume we have 2 languages, English and Traditional Chinese, installed. For a particular product, there will be one node representing the English one and the other node representing the Traditional Chinese one. If you add the English node into the cart, it will not be translated in the cart and checkout page. In other words, they are treated as 2 different products.
The Ubercart module is a complete E-Commerce suite which turn your Drupal website into an online store. It is a very big module which contains a lot of features. In this article, i will try to show you those basics but actually i am not intimate with it very well.
Before you start, it is recommended that Imagecache, CCK Image field and Views are installed. This allows our store product image showing to the customers.
The translated node itself has not relation with the original node except their node ids are mapped. So I can have a price $10 in the English item but $1000 in the Traditional Chinese item. It will be quite difficult to manage when the amount of content is getting more and more. Therefore, i18n provides another feature called Synchronize Translations. Whenever a node is updated, the synchronized fields of all other corresponding nodes are also updated. Continue reading Drupal – Synchronize Translation→
The i18n module not only helps translating the Drupal website, it also helps user to manage the translations of the contents/nodes. Once you have enabled the Internationalization in the i18n module, the Content Translation is also activated.
Eureka! 