[thelist] Multilingual Sites: Best approach?

[Dan McCullough]

the charset set in the content-type in the meta http-equiv tag.

On 11/8/05, Dan McCullough <dan.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well for starters you have to change the charset to the one that
> corresponds to the language, also if you are serving content from a
> database you have to have your database setup to handle the character
> set, utf-8 is the most common and can support most charater sets out
> there.
>
> On 11/8/05, Neal Watkins <neal at constructweb.com> wrote:
> > great input thanks
> >
> > How about asian languages? font issues? any experiences there - ?
> > The "romance languages" can dispaly well, i would assume we just need some
> > special characters - but do we just leave it to the user to have the correct
> > font if they are expecting a site in say - "chinese"
> >
> > thanks
> > Neal
> >
> > Quoting Fred D Yocum <fdy at mcc.org>:
> >
> > > As a designer that works for a North American charity with offices in at
> > > least thirty countries I would echo this comment. Translation is an
> > > expensive and time consuming business, but if you have ever chortled over
> > > a translation into your own language you know why it is important to get
> > > it as right as you can. Spanish translation, particularly in the North
> > > America where the Hispanic community is made up of people from many
> > > different Latin Amreican/Caribbean countries is complex. There is no
> > > dominant "Received" or "Standard" way of speaking or writing,
> > >
> > >> Finally, look for a translation company that has relationships with
> > >> in-country translators who are familiar with the industry for which
> > >> you are looking for translations... just knowing both languages isn't
> > >> enough... i can't speak accountant, so i wouldn't try to translate
> > >> from Spanish into it...
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