Internationalization what method do you use for internationalization?

HiTipical request during a web design to make the page readable in a lot of languages. Let's say you want to create a web page accessibile with the following languages: -English-German-Spanish-Chinese-RussianEach page should look the same with different texts.What method would you use to create the pages?For software development there is a tool callaed Babylon which supports dictionaries... but what for html?There are dictionaries which translate whole sentences. Do you know some, which do good job during translation from English?Thanks for your replies!

Hi

 

Tipical request during a web design to make the page readable in a lot of languages.

Let's say you want to create a web page accessibile with the following languages:

 

-English

-German

-Spanish

-Chinese

-Russian

 

Each page should look the same with different texts.

 

What method would you use to create the pages?

 

For software development there is a tool callaed Babylon which supports dictionaries... but what for html?

 

There are dictionaries which translate whole sentences. Do you know some, which do good job during translation from English?

 

Thanks for your replies!

 

Well, you have some options to do that, for example if you have your web page finished in English you can use one of the following:

Altavista Babel Fish

Google Language Tools

SDL International Free Translation Services

Dictionary.com Translator

WorldLingo Language Translation Services

to translate your web page to the language of your choice, but the major problem are grammer related, I try all of them and the more accurate results that i get was when using the last one, so be careful and always review your results. Then you can use the tedious copy/paste method or you can save the resulting web page of each translated text.

 

Once you have your text correctly translated to create the pages you can use PHP to show it dynamically according to the users language selection or you can use the W3C Standards for the correct method of doing this without any dynamic scripting involved.

 

Check this topic Multilingual Site: Send The User To Page Of Choice for more information.

 

Best regards,

Thank you for the info!I use the suggested method to redirect browser to actual language.However as I know working with dynamic php pages are not good for seo pages.I am planning to create a tool that helps maintain html files with same html structure and different languages.But before it I would like to make sure that this doesn't exists yet.

Translating with automated tools won't give you good results, even though it is quite accurate, but I don't recommend you to copy paste the translated version and make your content, unless you don't really have anything else to do or you know those languages quite fluently yourself and can correct all the mistakes in the text. Just try for example to translate several sentences and then translate the translated version back to English, you'll see some funny structure So just make it that people who want to translate your site: they would need to push on a link or submit button and would see google or some other service translating it.