Localization and Language Content

[Steve Piercy]

I'm aware of the localization strings builtin to Knop, where at the click of a link (or some other builtin in language detection) a visitor's preferred language will display for navigation items and other messages.  For multi-language sites, what do folks do when the entire content of the page needs to change as well?

Another idea I'm considering is the use of a country's two-letter code in the hostname to distinguish what language to serve.

http://us.company.com/
http://it.company.com/
http://de.company.com/
http://cn.company.com/

Finally, more of a general question not specific to Knop.  Has anyone played around with any Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese or Korean character display in web pages?  So far I've found that using utf-8 character set and the use of Unicode decimal entities would be the way to go.

--steve

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[Johan Solve-2]

For multilingual content we use a separate multipurpose languagestrings table for all localized language strings, which is used everywhere for localized content. The languagestrings table has a key field for each different use, so we can join it in separately for each usage.

I don't think this is something for Knop_lang to cover.


At 00.38 -0700 2009-03-21, Steve Piercy - Web Site Builder wrote:

>I'm aware of the localization strings builtin to Knop, where at the click of a link (or some other builtin in language detection) a visitor's preferred language will display for navigation items and other messages.  For multi-language sites, what do folks do when the entire content of the page needs to change as well?
>
>Another idea I'm considering is the use of a country's two-letter code in the hostname to distinguish what language to serve.
>
>http://us.company.com/
>http://it.company.com/
>http://de.company.com/
>http://cn.company.com/
>
>Finally, more of a general question not specific to Knop.  Has anyone played around with any Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese or Korean character display in web pages?  So far I've found that using utf-8 character set and the use of Unicode decimal entities would be the way to go.
>
>--steve
>
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