Movable Type International releases

As noted on the Movable Type homepage, we've released four new international versions of Movable Type. The details for purchasing licenses are explained on the Movable Type site, but we wanted to take the time to give a little more explanation to our Professional Network community about how the new versions work.

First, the Spanish, French, Dutch, and German translations are all official professional translations of Movable Type. In addition to the application interface, all of the documentation has been localized to each of the supported languages, as have the default templates. (The Dutch release currently contains only English documentation.)

The Movable Type Store interface for each release has also been localized, and the support ticket system for each language features responses in your local language. The new store interface allows purchase of any license in Euros as well.

Finally, all the international releases contain all the official language packs (excluding Japanese), enabling your authors to choose the appropriate language. As always, language settings are on a per-author basis.

Note: If you upgrade an existing US-english MT version with an international version, you will need to manually edit your language settings in your profiles as current weblog settings will not be overwritten.