8th of June, 2017
Backdrop doesn't have a working translation server to provide non-English language files. Such language files are needed to run Backdrop as a multilingual or a localized website. As a workaround, Backdrop is linking to the Drupal translation server (https://localize.drupal.org) which has some drawbacks:
- The link doesn't go to a specific page. Interested persons have to search the relevant language file of the latest Drupal core 7.x release.
- The Drupal core language files don't catch up with the progress made by Backdrop:
- Backdrop continues to include new language strings, or change existing ones.
- Backdrop has integrated former Drupal contrib modules like Views, Pathauto, Token and more in Backdrop core. To get these language strings from the Drupal translation server, you have to look for the relevant module's language files.