The Translated Text field is a special field type which provides translations for different content depending on the user locale. This field operates the same text field, and it is used all along with the system.
Administrators information
Technically, the English language text and other languages are stores in different tables: the master table – for the English text, the Translations (sys_translation) table – for localization. The Translation table contains several entries of a translated field – one per every language provided.
Please note: when you clear a field of a Translated text type, only the value for current language is deleted. Values for other languages remain where they were. Technically, when you do this, you delete only one record in the Translations (sys_translation) table, without removing others.
The Translated Text table
Translations for fields with the Translated Text field type are saved in the Translations (sys_translation) table.
Translated text form fields
Field
Description
column_id
The ID of the column containing translated text.
record_id
The ID of the record containing translated text.
language_id
The ID of the language the text translated into.
value
The displayed translated text.
The English language text in the master table and the translated text are bound with each other by the bundle looking like "column_id-record_id-language_id" fields. These fields' values are used when looking for the translation of the English language text of the specified field, and if found, it is taken as a translation. The same goes for translations to any other language.
If this condition was failed, you may get a collision during translation update delivery looking like:
