Rey Bango wrote: > I've never done development for sites that need to support the Japanese > language. What's a good starting point for this? Does CF have built-in > capabilities for this?
if you've done other i18n work, this is no different except of course where it's different ;-) and that's culturally. get a good set of resources for the language (and no i don't mean japanese speaking programmers, that's just asking for trouble) & culture (this is mainly going to come out in terms of graphics, layout, rokuyo ie. lucky vs unlucky days, etc.). > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. - as others have said, use unicode back to front: "just use unicode". - use resource bundles. - figure out which calendars you need to support (localized gregorian and/or "Japanese Imperial Calendar" which cf8 now supports natively, just set the locale to "ja_JP_JP"). - if required, study the japanese postal system for addressing, it's *not* that straight forward. your run of the mill US address db/form scheme won't work. - if required, keep an eye on clothing, especially shoe sizes. again, not the same as the US. - read the g11n chapters in the "advanced" cf books. the cf8 book has it in an electronic chapter that you can d/l for free (see ben's site for the url). - oh & read my blog ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304828 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
