Re: Multilangual Problem

["Albert REINER" <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:17:53PM +0200, Kai Daumiller wrote:
...
> To make it possible to switch from one language to the other at any
> page, I want to place links on each page (or, better in the navbar) that
> point to the same content, but in the other languages. 
...

I had the same problem for my pages in Esperanto. This artificial
language uses some non-US-ASCII characters, and with Unicode support
still missing on many systems, I have Unicode, ISO-Latin-3, and a
couple of common transliterations. Basically I have a file where I put
some general information on the different pages of a given site, and
this file is read into the templates for the others. And then, the
true files have names that differ only in a predictable manner -
e.g. appending some (language) code. A simple perl loop can then
create what you need. If you want, I can send you some wml files that
do just that (probably it would not be a good idea to post them on the
list, I guess), but they don't use navbars - I'm a lynx user.


HTH,

Albert.



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