On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 08:42 America/New_York, Winfried Ritsch wrote:
How should we make a multilanguage Page.
I have installed a Localizer but no Messagecatalog until now. Maybe we start with the sandard Plone one and can do more afterwards.
Some questions
Which languages we should respect ?
(for me german, english)
Who is translating (not content but menus, etc...) ?
How we deal with multi_language content ?
I propose, since translations are mostly never synchronized, each piece language should be an own document. so if we have a tutorial in English and German, just have two documents indtead of one multilanguage one, where is a language button.
I definitely want to support multiple languages, I would like to broaden to PD community beyond English speakers. While I think the multi-language content is currently not in sync, I do not think we should organize around that.
Instead I think we should plan the site around having one single structure, then the user would choose the language. There is currently not much Pd material that is in other languages besides English, so I think we could for now make a page dedicated to non-English PD docs that don't fit into the structure. If we have a separate document for every translation, then the navigation is going to get very messy as people add translations.
I think we should allow any language that someone is willing to translate for.
.hc