You may want to look at the following things...
Resource bundles (Paul H has some great resources)
icu4j libraries
If you build the site in utf-8 and use resource bundles then you should be
fine for most languages, it only gets really complicated when you are
looking at things like Thai (the
One of the obstacles I had was JS. I had to create separate JS files
Based on the locale (language) so that my alert messages would be in
The right language.
Other than that, it was just loading the right language files are start.
If pulling from a database just have it select where lang =
First, I tried to minimize the use of terms with images. Second, I created
an application level variable for all terms that needed to be translated,
including for javascript alerts. The data is stored in a table, so can be
updated (either automatically, when the application variable times out, or
Cool. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Bruce
-Original Message-
From: Doug Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:10 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Multi-Language Site
First, I tried to minimize the use of terms with images. Second, I created
an application
Bruce,
I have a client site that provides online learning internationally
with clients from different countries and Languages such as Japanese,
Arabic, French, Spanish and more. The same core model layer serves
the international portal, US portal, and allows for translation of
the
Jon Clausen wrote:
1) Sets the language locale variable which is cross referenced to the
#server.coldfusion.supportedlocales#. This allows you to use
Coldfusion internationalization for dates/currency formatting.
you have to be careful with this. cf relies on core java for it's locale
Paul Vernon wrote:
looking at things like Thai (the most complex AFAIK)...
i would actually say arabic, hebrew or farsi are harder to deal with than thai.
RTL layout, images, flash problems, non-gregorian calendars (3 different
calendars involved, boatload of subtle things to worry about),
Bruce Sorge wrote:
I have a new site I am working on that is going to be multi-lingual (Spanish
and English). Has anyone done this before and if so, what are some best
approaches? It is of course database driven, and it is a model (not nude)
site. What are some of the challenges I may face?
On May 9, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Paul Hastings wrote:
Jon Clausen wrote:
1) Sets the language locale variable which is cross referenced to the
#server.coldfusion.supportedlocales#. This allows you to use
Coldfusion internationalization for dates/currency formatting.
you have to be careful with
Hi Bruce,
The way I do this is to have the user pick a language (click on a flag if they
want to change language). I then set a Language variable using the iso
language code (such as 'en' or 'es'). I have a directory called 'resources'
and under that a directory for each language. At the
David McCan wrote:
The way I do this is to have the user pick a language (click on a flag if
they want to change language). I then set a Language variable using the
flags for language swaps are one of my pet peeves. they don't scale well, might
get away w/1 or 2 but what about something like
Jon Clausen wrote:
For the sake of brevity, I left out that this particular site
bypasses any CF/Java locale information for dealing with currency.
icu4j is based on the CLDR which is a standard, and is usually vetted fairly
well. might have a look at it.
of the client's partners,
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