> >> can someone suggest me the best way to build a multilanguage web site
> >> (english, french, ..).
> >> I'm using Apache + mod_perl + Apache::asp (for applications)
I'm really interested in what other people are doing here. We've just released
our first cut at i18n and it's going fairly well. But so far we haven't dealt
with the big bugaboo, character encoding.
One major problem I anticipate is what to do when individual include files are
not available in the local language. For iso-8859-1 encoded languages that's
not a major hurdle as we can simply use the english text until it's
translated. But for other encodings does it make sense to include english
text?
If we use UTF-8 all the ascii characters would display properly, but do most
browsers support UTF-8 now? Or do people still use BIG5, EUS, etc?
As far as I can tell there's no way in html to indicate to the browser that a
chunk of content is in some other encoding other than what was specified in
the headers or meta tag. There's no <span charset=...> attribute or anything
like that. This seems to make truly multilingual pages really awkward. You
basically must use an encoding like UTF-8 which can reach the entire unicode
character set or else you cannot mix languages.
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greg
