[thelist] Multilingual Sites: Best approach?

[Dan McCullough]

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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