[geeklog-devtalk] Re: language hack

[Euan McKay]

Simon,

I am working on this sort of thing. I have multilingual sites (but not 
translated the content yet) on http://www.heatherengineering.com and 
http://www.warmemory.net.

There is an explanation about how to set it up for static pages and 
stories here:
http://www.heatherengineering.com/staticpages/index.php/multilingual-en

The shortcoming is that it has separate topics for each language, and 
does not associate the different language versions of the same item.

To do that, I (and also Oliver is looking in the same direction at 
tokyoahead.com I think) am working on a multilingual system right now - 
I have a "Babel" plugin in the works that allows multilingual 
capabilities. With this and a brief hack to the stories display, it 
would be possible to have truly multilingual content. However, I'm 
trying to get the next version of Glinks out (also truly multilingual) 
asap, so I'm not moving forward on that right this moment.

Drop me a line if you need any help.

Cheers,

Euan.

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On 2004/11/16, at 3:00, geeklog-devel-request at lists.geeklog.net wrote:

>

> Message: 3

> To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

> From: Simon Lord <slord at marelina.com>

> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:53:56 -0500

> Subject: [geeklog-devel] language hack

> Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>

> Is anyone out there dealing with a site or client that has a

> requirement to run 2 or more languages?  For example, I'm looking at a

> client with two languages.  The idea is that when you first come to the

> site you are greated with choosing either language, the language you

> choose would then not only be the language of the site but also the

> stories.

>

> This would mean having to write each story in two languages, then

> possibly having some mechanism that links the 2 up so that the user is

> taken to the proper language story.

>

> If any solutions, or modules, have been made for this purpose please

> let me know.

>

> Sincerely,

> Simon