Is it an okay plan to take an existing English website programmed in ColdFusion and basically duplicate it across a few other languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish) either in their own directories like /english and /espanol, or at localized domains like .com, .com.es, etc... ?

What workflow issues have people run into going with this method?

Do you use the ip-to-country database to do the auto redirects to localized URLs?

Also I noticed previously that someone mentioned it was important to save word files in Unicode format at the translation end. Why is this important if I can open any word file on my end and save it as Unicode - besides we'd just be copying and pasting text anyway, or am I missing some large concept?

Thanks for any tips,
Ketan

On Oct 21, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Jad Madi wrote:

why not to stick with UTF-8 and UTF-16 for Chinese?



On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:47:32 +1000, Neerav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thats interesting, personally I like to be specific about the charset eg:

Chinese Traditional
Taiwan, Hong Kong
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=big5" />

Chinese Simplified
China mainland, Singapore and Malaysia
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312" />



Neerav Bhatt
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Francesco wrote:
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively
Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) -
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html





I read this entire article, then changed the first meta tag on a test page to be:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

then I went to the Chinese translation of Joel's page and cut and pasted
some Chinese characters into my html page, saved it, and loaded it in IE
expecting to see Chinese side by side to my English text. Nope. Still
gibberish. What did I do wrong?


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