#4030: internationalization - auto translation of LANGUAGES
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Reporter: temp@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: closed
Component: | Version: SVN
Internationalization | Resolution: fixed
Severity: Normal | Triage Stage: Accepted
Keywords: LANGUAGES | Needs documentation: 0
settings.py | Patch needs improvement: 0
Has patch: 1 | UI/UX: 0
Needs tests: 0 |
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Changes (by anonymous):
* ui_ux: => 0
* type: => Uncategorized
* severity: => Normal
* easy: => 0
Comment:
I just want to comment that users of a website will see a mess when the
fonts needed have not been installed onto his computer. I have considered
this problem for my own websites (which are highly localised) and I really
only found one good way around it.
So the problem is that if you use many languages, and present the text as
fonts, and the users do not have all of the fonts required by those
languages installed, then there will be a mess on the page. This is in my
opinion completely unacceptable. Wikipedia is one example where this mess
regularly occurs - you know they have the language list on the edge of the
page and the mess appears there.
One good way to solve this problem is by making such language selection
have images instead of HTML text. This solution works very well. You can
have a textual language selection list in English always present at the
top of all pages, but you can additionally have a language selection page
where you can have the image buttons and those would have the names of the
languages in the respective languages. This way you will not get any mess
displayed to the users. An example of this idea in use is at the NHK World
website.
It is just something to consider for your own website design work and not
directly about Django.
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