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Hi all - question for you multilingual gurus out there.  Can EE’s system messages be multilingual?  There are a few circumstances in which I have a system message exposed - Firemail, since it uses EE’s native mailing list module, after subscribing displays a system message of:

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All of that content is three variables - heading, content and link.  Given that they are global system variables, I’m supposing that i may be able to replace them - so is this done in index.php within each site’s language folder?  That’s the multilingual approach I’ve taken - the fairly traditional route with an index.php file within each language folder (en, fr, etc) and a few global variables defined in that file.  Are the system messages also controlled this way?  It makes that content inaccessible to the client though, so if there’s a better way to handle it, I’d love to hear it.

Yes. That can be done.

Go to your expression engine installation. There is a folder there called language. You will find therein at least one folder: “english”. You can create another language folder called “french” and translate the files in the “english” folder.

However, all of this is explained in the EE documentation. Have you searched that?

Yes, I’ve reviewed the documentation and found the downloadable language packs.  What’s not clear to me just yet is now to assign a language pack to a given multilingual segment, based on the primary multilingual approach of making a duplicate copy of index.php for each language segment (en, fr, etc.) with certain key variables set in that file.  I suspect I’ll figure it out though. Thanks for the input.