How to display "English" link on Arabic website and "Arabic" link on English website

Question

I want to display link "Arabic" on my English site so user can click on it to view "Arabic" version. I want to do similar thing on my Arabic site where it will display link "English".

How do I do that?

The place where I will display these words is defined in my Master Page. Or I can do it in Page Layout if not possible in Master Page but need some guidance on it.

Answer 1

SharePoint 2010 offers 2 ways of multilanguage support:

• MUI - which is basically loading of resources for standard menus according to language currently selected
• Variations - which actually consists in using "labels" for languages (more details http://hermansberghem.blogspot.ch/2009/10/best-practices-to-build-multi-lingual.html), which basically generates sub-sites for each languages. I assume you do have variations, for which you need to enable the Variations menu which afterwards is automatically handled by SharePoint, showing the labels for each language (except current one). Have a look at this http://blog.markusb.ch/2012/03/enable-variation-label-menu-in-sharepoint-2010/ and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms562040.aspx

I would strongly suggest you go through the excellent series from Stefan Gossner http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2011/11/29/sharepoint-variations-the-complete-guide-part-12-customization.aspx