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aspx thread: Mutliple Language support
Message #1 by Suman Banerjee <suman_24@y...> on Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi All
Are there any features to provide multiple language
support to a site? Any controls or programming models
to achieve it? Any help would be great.
thanks in advance
Suman
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Message #2 by "Thomas Tomiczek" <t.tomiczek@t...> on Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:51:29 +0200
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Yes, in theory - though not perfect for ASP.
You could work with resource files and satellite asemblies and have all
the text in resource files. THe correct resource file (or a default)
will be selected automatically. There is a sample for this in the
quickstart section (hm, I wonder - do people read it before posting to
groups?).
The disadvantage is that IMHO this is a perfect way for "technical
driven" pages such as login, payment etc., but fails miserably for
"content driven" pages. In this case, my approach is the following:
(a) a subfolder for every language with the language code in first place
plus intelligent redirect.
The advantage is that the different sites CAN vary - important when
content driven.
Regards
Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
-----Original Message-----
From: Suman Banerjee [mailto:suman_24@y...]
Sent: Dienstag, 17. April 2001 08:55
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] Mutliple Language support
Hi All
Are there any features to provide multiple language
support to a site? Any controls or programming models
to achieve it? Any help would be great.
thanks in advance
Suman
Message #3 by "Ollie Cornes" <lotsofemail@c...> on Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:43:20 +0100
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my suggestion would be much the same as Thomas':
a) use resources for static text across the site
b) use a custom database structure for larger pieces of content and that
which changes.
my understanding is that although the easy internationalisation features of
VB have not appeared in ASP.NET, enough is there that creating sites across
languages is much easier now. the tricky part that remains is dealing with
the parts of your web site that are specific to its business - e.g.
translating articles/news and publishing it in multiple languages.
obtaining the clients language is easy - look in the server variables. you
could of course also add an option for the user to set a different language.
as the number of net users in asia amongst other areas increases i think we
mjst expect that multi-language sites will become more prevalent.
i'm doing some work in this area and I'd love to get in touch with others
doing multi-language sites in ASP.NET.
Ollie
ollie@c...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Tomiczek" <t.tomiczek@t...>
To: "ASP+" <aspx@p...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:51 AM
Subject: [aspx] RE: Mutliple Language support
Yes, in theory - though not perfect for ASP.
You could work with resource files and satellite asemblies and have all
the text in resource files. THe correct resource file (or a default)
will be selected automatically. There is a sample for this in the
quickstart section (hm, I wonder - do people read it before posting to
groups?).
The disadvantage is that IMHO this is a perfect way for "technical
driven" pages such as login, payment etc., but fails miserably for
"content driven" pages. In this case, my approach is the following:
(a) a subfolder for every language with the language code in first place
plus intelligent redirect.
The advantage is that the different sites CAN vary - important when
content driven.
Regards
Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
-----Original Message-----
From: Suman Banerjee [mailto:suman_24@y...]
Sent: Dienstag, 17. April 2001 08:55
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] Mutliple Language support
Hi All
Are there any features to provide multiple language
support to a site? Any controls or programming models
to achieve it? Any help would be great.
thanks in advance
Suman
Message #4 by "Thomas Tomiczek" <t.tomiczek@t...> on Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:46:16 +0200
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Get in touch with me, if you wnat. A
norwegian/Englich/Swedish/German/Spanish site is quite funny - no, not
ours, fur a customer.
Thomas Tomiczek
-----Original Message-----
From: Ollie Cornes [mailto:lotsofemail@c...]
Sent: Dienstag, 17. April 2001 12:43
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] RE: Mutliple Language support
my suggestion would be much the same as Thomas':
a) use resources for static text across the site
b) use a custom database structure for larger pieces of content and that
which changes.
my understanding is that although the easy internationalisation features
of
VB have not appeared in ASP.NET, enough is there that creating sites
across
languages is much easier now. the tricky part that remains is dealing
with
the parts of your web site that are specific to its business - e.g.
translating articles/news and publishing it in multiple languages.
obtaining the clients language is easy - look in the server variables.
you
could of course also add an option for the user to set a different
language.
as the number of net users in asia amongst other areas increases i think
we
mjst expect that multi-language sites will become more prevalent.
i'm doing some work in this area and I'd love to get in touch with
others
doing multi-language sites in ASP.NET.
Ollie
ollie@c...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Tomiczek" <t.tomiczek@t...>
To: "ASP+" <aspx@p...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:51 AM
Subject: [aspx] RE: Mutliple Language support
Yes, in theory - though not perfect for ASP.
You could work with resource files and satellite asemblies and have all
the text in resource files. THe correct resource file (or a default)
will be selected automatically. There is a sample for this in the
quickstart section (hm, I wonder - do people read it before posting to
groups?).
The disadvantage is that IMHO this is a perfect way for "technical
driven" pages such as login, payment etc., but fails miserably for
"content driven" pages. In this case, my approach is the following:
(a) a subfolder for every language with the language code in first place
plus intelligent redirect.
The advantage is that the different sites CAN vary - important when
content driven.
Regards
Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
-----Original Message-----
From: Suman Banerjee [mailto:suman_24@y...]
Sent: Dienstag, 17. April 2001 08:55
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] Mutliple Language support
Hi All
Are there any features to provide multiple language
support to a site? Any controls or programming models
to achieve it? Any help would be great.
thanks in advance
Suman
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