Tommorrow when I am less tired (it's just after 9pm for me, long day!) I will gladly share some examples of how I solved my particular language issue. The main benefit that I see of the way that I have approached this problem makes it incredibly easy for me to add additional languages as required, all of the really hard work has already been done i.e. presentation, generation of XML files, etc. Because of the web based interface for translating the text it is very easy for me to get somebody to translate everything as required.
________________________________ From: Adkins, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 21/04/2005 18:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: translating websites What I did was replaced all my DISPLAYED TEXT as variables And have a file with all the variables setup for the given language. Such as: If the locale is Spanish, then it calls the es-es.cfm file with all The Spanish Translations. If the locale is English, then it calls the en-us.cfm file with all The English Translations. This way I maintain ONE website and 2 language files. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: translating websites Hi, Andy... I had a client ask about year ago if something like this could be done without creating multiple sites, each in a different language. I couldn't think of a way to do it. Seems like you've solved the problem nicely. Would you mind sharing some of your code / files / techniques...perhaps a small sample of how you do it? Unfortunately, I know very little about using XML, although I've read some about it, and haven't used it before. Any insight you'd be willing to give would be much appreciated! A first question would be...why would involving XML be helpful? Why not just have someone do that translations and put them into a database? Thanks, Rick ---------------------------------------- From: "Andy Mcshane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:03 PM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: RE: translating websites I have done exactly this using XML. All of the English text that appears on my site is held within tables in a SQL database. I have a Coldfusion interface for these tables that allows access to this text for translating into any language that I choose. From this same interface I then generate XML files for each language using the following naming convention, English.xml, Spanish.xml, etc. In my coldfusion page, where I want to display the relevant text I place a call to a translate function which does a search of the XML file that I specify and returns the appropriate text. This means that I have only one Coldfusion page that can be seen in many different languages. It is a little more complex than I have stated here but this is one method to do it. My site is a multi-lingual site and I display the required text based on the language that a user specifies. The only drawback that I have so far found with this method is that you sometimes get your text display screwed up depending on t he size of the translated text, but this is a very small problem indeed, but I would suggest XML as a good solution to your requirements. ________________________________ From: Coleman, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 21/04/2005 17:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: translating websites I don't know if CF has any native way to do this, but the company I work for is looking for a way to translate the website to Spanish. Surely you wouldn't have to do a page for page translation? If anyone has worked with doing this sort of stuff, let me know. Thanks, Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203900 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
