Hello, A little off the topic though, but it this has always intrigued me about building a multilingual website. I mean using the resources bundle u could provide a translations from the labels but in case of building a CMS (content management system) how would one enter the content in the native language in which the site is translated?
I believe the solution that I have come up with is to save the same content in different languages. But I am sure there would be a better solution out there somewhere. I am new to struts development (and java on the whole!) so pardon my ignorance!!. rp -----Original Message----- From: Ruth, Brice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:41 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Localization with Struts/Tiles and URLs Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > Ruth, Brice wrote: > >> [snip] >> On the first point, our site will have a global landing page that >> will present the user with flags to choose their locale. > > > This is semi-offtopic, but might be of interest. > > When I worked on a large scale multi-lingual app in Europe a few years > ago, my intent was to do exactly this (but with a tweak -- the landing > page language was determined by the browser's default language > setting). However, I was informed by more than a few Europeans that > using flags for language choice was not being culturally sensitive -- > if I'm a French-speaking person living in Belgium or Switzerland, it's > going to irritate me greatly to have to click the flag of France -- > and it's not a 1:1 relationship for any multilingual country (as these > two, among others, are). > > Craig Craig, Thanks - I'll pass this on to our marketing folks. One note, though - our site will not only be localized for language, but will also be sensitive to the actual products our company offers in those markets. So, if we market products in Belgium and France, and they aren't the same, then we'll have two flags - one for Belgium, one for France - though that obviously creates a problem with countries that have more than one language, like Belgium and Switzerland, for instance. -- Brice D. Ruth Sr. IT Analyst Fiskars Brands, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
