Yves Dufour wrote:
Hi Ben
I discussed this issue with a friend of mine involved in many
localizations (translation company)... he said exactly what you wrote.
Few , actually very few sites needs a true mixin of multi-languages
contents: one in which the visitor enter in english and need to get a
spanish version of one article... generally, the visitor wants to
choose one language and stick to it...
It would be better to work on a good initial design in the default
language, then buying or building admin tools that help in duplicating
the default site, localizing all existing contents to another
language, and deploying multi sub-domains , one for each language..
Radiant is lite and simple to use, trying to add in core
multi-language capabilities will transform it into a 'refinery' ...
better keep it clean, small and green ....
adding extensions...
(I have been deeply looking into the Zope/Plone CMS for a customer...
an example of refinery)
That's what I am going to do for my next customer :
default site :en http://www.mycustomersite.com -> proxy URL
to http://www.mycustomersite.com/en/
duplicate to sub-domain http://fr.mycustomersite.com -> proxy URL
to http://www.mycustomersite.com/fr/ , localizing the content
.. and so on
why not a localization extension wich will had a language bar view and
manage all localization parameters
I just have a localization bar that only finds if the article exists in
another language (based on the convention that all languages have the
same slug with only a different language portion /en/article or
/fr/article and so on. It is assumed that /en /fr /jp will have
completely different content in my case. Essentially, it is also
assumed that the language maintainers are different people. Further,
not all content is available in all supported languages. The loss is
that the slug will always be in a single language.
I use this as demonstrated on:
http://t-engine.onghu.com/en/articles/booting-t-engine-from-usb/ (thebar
shows 'en' and 'th')
On another page:
http://t-engine.onghu.com/cn/articles/te-recommended-reading/ it shows
'cn' and 'en'
and so on.
Cheers,
Mohit.
3/10/2009 | 4:08 PM.
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