Hi, This is my first post, and could use some points of view on the subject. Have a project that will have several languages for its records, for places, for example, whose names and descriptions will be in 3 languages.
Have already read several sites about it but always end up with several perspectives: 1 - Tables for each language: places_pt, places_en, places_es, with fields: id, name, description; Seems superfluous, but will leave less records on each table, although adding a great amount of tables, the more languages i have; 2 - Rows for each language: id, lang, name, description - the field "lang" will have "pt", "en" or "es", and when displaying, i will have to lookup the active language and get the proper record; Will add tremendously to the record #; 3 - Fields for each language: table "places", with fields: id, name_pt, name_en, name_es, description_pt,description_en,description_es - not likely to add a new language, but still adding new field adds complexity. Is there a "proper" way to do things? Any usual way of handling several languages on a project? Any help is highly appreciated, thanks. MV
