How can Liferay support multi-lingual content delivery?

Liferay supports multi-lingual content delivery primarily through the localization framework it provides. This framework enables developers to create content in multiple languages and manage translations effectively within the Liferay environment. It allows for the definition of language-specific resources, meaning that content can be tailored based on the user's language preference, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Using this framework, developers can create language-specific versions of web content articles, portlets, and other resources. Liferay automates the detection of a user's language settings and serves the appropriate content version, ensuring a seamless user experience across different language groups.

While separate sites can be used for language differentiation, this approach is less efficient than leveraging the localization tools built into Liferay, which allow for a more integrated and streamlined workflow. Enabling user preference settings can assist in delivering localized content, but it relies heavily on the underlying localization framework to implement multilingual capabilities. Integrating external translation services is also an option, yet doing so typically requires more complex integration and may not harness Liferay’s full content management capabilities as effectively as its built-in localization features. Thus, the localization framework remains the most robust method for supporting multi-lingual content delivery in Liferay.