Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Dynamic Translation (long)

[Tony M. <to...@ht...>]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Matthew McNaney wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:15, Ulf Hallmann wrote:

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> >  - distributing different languages across different sites would
> > result in incomplete content in some languages.
> 
> The same thing would happen with different languages on the same site.

I don't think that it's possible to have dynamic translations for content 
is necessarily a good thing.  If you think it is, go to 
babelfish.altavista.digital.com and translate "the spirit is willing, but 
the flesh is weak" from Italian to English and back again. :)

What would be really nice though, is to have a language module where you 
could look up the language preferance of the user and support a language 
tag in the URL, such a ?lang=en on the end of the page.  Then you could 
create web pages with a selectable language attribute, and have it 
presented to the user who requests the information.  Then the page in 
multiple languages would be near the same place.

I don't think you'll ever get away from having to produce multiple pages 
of content.

(The possibilities are endless.  You could even code in a "translate this 
page for us" button and have a user submit a translation of your page for 
your approval :))

-Tony

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