$page->title doesn't work with multilanguage title field for home page

[nico]

Hi all,

I'm trying to access the home/root page's multilanguage title field via API like so: 

$page->title;

this works on all other (sub-) pages, which are using the exact same template as the home page. only on the home page, it is not working to either output or save a different language title than the default one. it always outputs the default language page title – and saving a new page title via api (no matter if default or other languages) is not working at all (while working fine on normal sub pages with the same template). when saving via the admin-interface, it is being saved to the database - but still not output properly when fetched via the api.

this is only happening with the required multilanguage title field. all other content fields are working just fine.

is there any reason for this, like the root page title being restricted somehow? we tried comparing the different pages and templates and couldn't come up with any difference, except for the home page having the status "systemID" in settings.

thanks,
N.