depends on what server technology the site is using, of course. from experience, i would recommend JSP - Java's internal handling of Unicode and built-in language/locale stuff (resource bundles) is very effective. all the text is stored in .properties files, one per language and/or country, and JSP/HTML templates dynamically show the text from the appropriate language.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:09:44 +1000, Jason Foss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > I have a client who wants part of their website translated into a few other > languages, some of them Asian (Chinese & Korean are a couple). I have > obtained a couple of quotes from translation agencies to actually do the > translations, but does anyone have experience with actually implementing > this sort of thing in a website? > > The easy way is to make an image out of the translation and pop that there - > but I don't want to do that for obvious reasons!!! I'm reading a bit about > character sets and encoding, but it's all a bit abstract at this point. Any > experiences or how-to references would be much appreciated! > > Ta > Jason > > ********** > Jason Foss > Almost Anything Desktop Publishing > www.almost-anything.com.au > Telephone: (07) 4927 8033 > Facsimile: (07) 4927 5312 > Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 9 Unmack Street, North Rockhampton, Queensland 4701 > We can do almost anything! > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
