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Multilingual termstore usage

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I did some testing during customer engagement with having a multilingual SharePoint 2010 termstore. What I wanted to know is when translateds labels are being used. Here is the answer:

Within the termstore I configured the folowing term:

 

 

 

 

Within the site settings / language settings of the site I have added the language "German" and then I am able to switch the site to German language via the user's menu:

After switching the language to "German" the terms will now be shown in German language:

 

If there is no label for the selected language available the default label will be used. Within the next screenshot this is the case for the term "Four" since I did not apply a German label for that term in the termstore:

Furthermore the autocomplete functionality when applying terms will also take care of the configured language:

 

And also for missing lanugage specific labels:

 

Will check soon it will work the same way in SP2013 and update this article.