Is this really the version you are looking for? Kentico Xperience 12 Service Pack Documentation is no longer updated. Use the switcher in the header to choose your product version.
Kentico websites can host content in multiple languages (cultures). Multilingual websites have separate versions of pages for each language. The system allows you to offer culture versions of the website to visitors based on various settings.
You can find a list of available cultures in the Localization application on the Cultures tab. All major cultures are provided by default. You can assign cultures to websites and then translate the content to the respective languages.
Multilingual user and administration interface
The administration interface of Kentico can also be multilingual. To learn more, refer to the Setting up a multilingual user interface chapter.
To add more cultures to a website:
The cultures are now assigned to the website and editors can start translating pages.
Open the Pages application. You can now switch between languages using the selector below the content tree.
To learn how to manage pages for different cultures, continue with Editing the content of multilingual websites.
When you create a new website, you specify the default culture in the New site wizard. If you create a website based on a web template, the site uses the culture of the given web template. All default Kentico web templates use English - United States as their default culture.
Default culture in MVC projects
The configured default culture only applies to sites built using the Portal Engine development model. To learn how to configure culture recognition for MVC sites, refer to Setting up multilingual MVC projects.
You can modify the default culture settings of a website in:
The two settings are interlinked. Values configured in one section are reflected in the other location.