Hi Kepler,
Personally I think it is an accessibility issue to mix two
languages on the
same page.
I am not sure about this, I don't find it an issue at all, due to my
background it's actually a rather common thing to read/speak two
different langagues in a single conversation/page. If you ever watch
Bollywood movie, you will see that it's very common too. Heck! Even
those Booker prize winners Indian writers have to insert a few Hindi
here and there. Do French in Quebec do this?
UTF-8 makes it possible to have two totally different languages put
on one page, and website no longer is a mono-language rule it all,
based on this logic, I think one really can't argue it's an
accessibiility issue if a website contains two languages in one page,
as long as the nature of the site has this needs based on its culture
and custom preferences.
I am just curious why you did that.
Well, I guess this is arguable if I really need it. I guess I don't
need to but I have a good reason for doing it - I am redesigning my
web design service site (+ blog), and I want to target a particular
audiences that are both English/Chinese capable and comfortable with
using both and have the preferences to give the business to one who
is capable of both languages. To do this, I need to demonstrate that
to them - it's just a matter how one go about doing it, and yes,
serving one version for English and the other for Chinese is one way
to go. However, say, in the home page and other pages I want to show
blog entries that have English and Chinese articles in certain block,
it makes more sense to have two languages in one page instead of two
different pages specifically for English and Chinese.
There is also this possibility that a site needs two languages in one
page, for instance, a site offers language learning.
If it is a requirement, you
can identify a particular block as being in a different language by
using
the lang attribute on that one block. Then use the lang attribute
on the
html tag to identify the main language of the page (
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#changes-in-lang ) .
Thanks for the pointer. This no doubt is a good way.
I currently am working on a multilingual site myself. It is not
live but you
can see it at ( http://lafermerie.neighborwebmaster.com ). The
links on the
lower right allow you to switch between languages. I am using UTF-8
and
setting the lang attribute based on the currently selected language.
Wow!! Powered by Zencart! I know it's not ready for production
environment, but did you check the Magento?
tee
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