Paul Novitski wrote:
I formulated my question in general since I couldn't find an other
message here about supporting multiple languages.
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/
http://php.net/setlocale
Thanks a lot, these are good points for reading.
1) Switching language downloads a new version of the current page,
generally with the same markup but new text. Example:
http://partcon.ca/
I'll favor this way especially if several languages have to be provided.
In both cases I store the text in database tables that contain a
language field I can select on to match the user's request.
I wonder if retrieving static texts from the database draws too much
performance. I know from somebody who stores texts in large data arrays
an uses shared memory, yet I haven't figured it out how.
I consider storing static texts as defines and just load a different
definition file when the user switches language. Is this practical?
O. Wyss
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