TYPO3 Core

The language drop-down in the content element always shows all languages enabled for a site.
No matter if a page overlay for a language exists or not.

But in the case I descripted only languages with a page overlay are displayed. After I delete the page overlay by hand out of the database they are gone.

Hey Gregor,

I'm still not sure if this is an error. Would you please describe exact steps on how to reproduce? Which forms do show what under which circumstances?

1. I use the List-Modul to add some languages into the top worldbubble.
2. I use the List-Modul to add an Alternative Page Language
3. Now I can choose the language i created in step 2 for a contentelement on that same site on 2 places: - directly underneath the save buttons and below the Type. Both have deleted and not deleted languages for selection.
4. After i delete languages in "pages_language_overlay" with the pid of that site and with deleted = 1 set, than they are not shown in step 3

And i guess it doesn't make any sense to able to chose deleted languages.
I hope this explanation is understandable.

This is a long-standing issue, see also issues #15355 and #15355. This is not a bug per se, but rather an implementation that needs to be completed.

It is not clear what should happen, when an alternative page language (APL) is DELETED. For instance: Should all translated elements be deleted too? (if yes, the a warning confirmation box about the extent of what is about to happen should probably be issued).

When an APL is HIDDEN, it is not as critical. Maybe elements on the page, which are translations using the hidden APL should be shown with som kind of annotation on their icon, to signify that their APL is hidden..?

Other related issues are #15355 and #15355: Both of these make what seems to be a hack to exclude APL from being shown, but does not address the fundamental problem, namely that several translated elements might have become 'orphans'.

Generally, searching bugs.typo3.org for 'alternative page language' unravels many corner cases of handling languages: It is hard to do this right.