[thelist] Designing in other languages (German/Japanese)

[Joxn]

Shaun M. Anderson wrote:

> Does anybody have any advice on creating a site in another language?


The GNU tool gettext is a standard tool for multilanguage sites / 
programs. You can use it via PHP, for example. It's really easy to use 
and makes translating your site very easy, too.

> Possible problems:
> 1) That navigation doesn't make any sense to someone who doesn't speak
> English.  Maybe a cultural thing that we obviously will know nothing about.
> (Any Germans that would have an opinion on that?)


I'm from Germany and I think there shouldn't be a great cultural problem 
if you use the same template/navigation. Both are western cultures. I 
see greater problem with the Japanese site...

There are a few minor differences you should keep in mind. For example, 
in German you use a decimal comma instead of a decimal point, like 12,35 
DM instead of US$ 5.28 .

German terms are often about 1/3 longer than the English ones, though.

If you need further help or if I should take a look at your German 
pages, just drop me a note.

bye Joxn
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