Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Michelle Heeden King" <michelle AT heedenking.com>]

I manage a site (in ASP.NET) that has partial content translated into
Spanish by a human translator who is on staff. Our content management system
was custom designed, and each page is administered through a web interface.
The interface has an HTML box for an English version and another for a
Spanish version. For pages that have something entered into the Spanish
version box, a link to the Spanish version (which reads: ver en español)
automatically appears on the English version of the page. (If there is no
Spanish version of the page, no link appears.) Once a person clicks a link
for the Spanish version of a page, they are then presented with the Spanish
version of each page they navigate until they click the English version link
again. If a user is navigating in Spanish and there is no Spanish version of
a page to display, they receive a message stating that there is no Spanish
version (in Spanish, of course), and they are offered the English version if
they want it. If you'd like to see this in action, you can visit the site at
www.dioceseofraleigh.org. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Czeiszperger [mailto:michael AT czeiszperger.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:12 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: [internetworkers] multiple language website?
> 
> Hey, I've actually got an "internet/web" question.  What are people
> doing for multiple language support?  Is there some sort of automatic
> translation that works, or do you have to basically mirror the entire
> site and translate everything by hand?
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> _________
> "We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue,
> and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the
> facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is
> possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: The only
> check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against
> solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
>     -- G. Orwell
> 
> 
> 


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