Magento multi Language store

Question

One client asked to internationalize a magento 2.2.3 store adding other two languages (English and Spanish). The current website is on production since April with only the default language and store view (Italian). I'm studying how to internationalize a magento store since it is the first time, but I have some doubts. I found some articles on the web and it is clear that I need to create the store views, download the language packages and then translate the contents.

https://support.weltpixel.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006305808-How-to-create-a-Multi-Language-Store-in-Magento-Tutorial

https://inchoo.net/magento-2/magento-2-create-multilanguage-store/

https://inchoo.net/magento-2/magento-2-administration/create-multi-language-store-magento-2-part-2/

1. How to handle the current store view ?
2. It is necessary to add the it code to the italian view?
3. If yes, How to handle the old urls (without the store code).

Answer 1

You need to create:

app/i18n/<yourCustomName>/es_ES
app/i18n/<yourCustomName>/en_EN

Once created add a registration.php, language.xml, and a es_ES.csv or en_EN.csv in each folder.

Inside each language.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<language xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:App/Language/package.xsd">
    <code>es_ES</code>
    <vendor><vendor></vendor>
    <package>es_es</package>
    <sort_order>10</sort_order>
    <use vendor="<vendor>" package="es_es" />
</language>

Once you have these done and the .csv have data inside (make sure you try and find them online).

Then you go and create storeviews:

You should have Default WebSite and Default Store and Default StoreView (Or the Italian ones). So when creating 2 new storeviews, they should be childs of the default Store.

Hopefully I will have answered the questions.