NUGROHO NOTO wrote: > we already have a website in Japanese (running coldfusion 5 english version)
can't you upgrade? while cf5 can be made to be i18n w/some effort it will kill you in the long term. the easiest approach is to deploy one cf5 server for each language (no, really). > since we are on CF 5 server (which I was told do not support XML > ??)..so..what is the best way to store those language text ? in resource bundle files like java. plenty of decent tools to help maintain these, which is a fact many people doing i18n work for the first time tend to overlook (or assume is trivial). but probably too much work to get going in cf5. > is it in database, and call the query text based on session language ? you really can't. cf5 won't deal well w/japanese data in an i18n application setting. cf5 doesn't really support unicode so you'll have to store code page data & that will have issues if you need to mix languages on the same page or try to use other languages that also need windows code pages that overlap w/your japanese ones. you can store raw utf-8 in your db but only as a dumb storage system, you won't be able to search, sort, etc. it. > or... just hardcode these language in each page and use <cfif> to choose the > language to display the output. > I don't mind hardcode them (eventhough it might be difficult to correct), my > purpose is the fastest coldfusion can process. maintaining this will be difficult. if you can work around the codepage issues i suppose you might just cfinclude language files. that way you can maintain pge logic but change the text, etc. per language. btw you should be thinking about locales instead of languages, while folks in the US, GB, Canada, Australia, etc. speak "english", spelling, date/numeric formatting, etc. are going to be different. 11-2-2007 doesn't always mean 2-nov-2007 everywhere they speak english. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290249 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
