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Tips on using SharePoint in a multilingual environment

The PointFire Blog for Multilingual SharePoint

Modern Sites Will Let You Choose Site Language: Why It's Not A Big Deal

For the past two years, when you were creating a new modern Team or Communication site, SharePoint would not let you specify the language of the site. This was unlike classic sites, when the language could always be chosen.  But soon in Targeted Release, the modern site creation dialog wil...

30.07.18 08:07 PM - Comment(s)

PointFire 365 and PointFire Power Translator support a lot of languages, but language support is not the same for all languages.  Here is a current chart of which languages are currently supported and to what degree.


LanguageQualitySharePoint
AfrikaansNeuralN
ArabicNeuralY
Azerbaijani -Y
Bangla...
30.07.18 08:07 PM - Comment(s)
It's official, Variations are a deprecated feature

SharePoint 2019 public preview is out!


It brings most of the SharePoint Online experience to the on-premise environment.  But as a follow-up to the announcement 4 weeks ago about the retirement of the machine translation service and possible end of Variations, in SharePoint 2019 the li...
24.07.18 06:07 PM - Comment(s)
Update for Machine Translation Services from SharePoint Online

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Plan For Change
Published On : 28 June 2018
30.06.18 08:07 AM - Comment(s)

SharePoint sometimes has separate language packs for several variants of closely related languages, like Brazilian and European Portuguese, or several varieties in the Serbo-Croatian family of languages.  In other cases, you have to live with a different variant of your language, so for instanc...
30.04.18 02:05 PM - Comment(s)