> I need to prepare an exisiting site to take a multilingual user interface > (up to 5 languages in the end). It is mostly small user interface > elements, the main body of is already prepared to take multilingual > content.
how will you determine user's locale? dates, numeric/currency formatting? bidi? non-gregorian calendars? what locales will you support? any of these not official cf locales? etc.... > * Put all the text in the database, one entry for each element. how will you pull the data out, per locale? > * Read the query into the Application scope, and convert it to a struct > (faster to query... ? Or QoQ?) one structure per locale or ?? > * Make sure that struct is cached (in the App scope) some two days and not > reloaded every time or use a file based (per locale) resourceBundle. unless you're dealing with huge globs of text file based resourceBundles are pretty quick. > I am on CF5, put CFMX is on the horizon (not too close though). i'd just wait to go to mx (redsky) before bothering to make your app i18n. you really want to start out and stay with unicode, rather than code page encoding & then swapping to unicode somewhere down the road. plus you get more "official" locales (not enough but more than cf5), cfc, xml support, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
