2 langs on one page
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- bedenken
Does anyone have and example any websites that display 2 languages simultaneously?
- UndoUndo0
encoding problems?
- bedenken0
No... like French and English on the same page.
- flavorful0
Pulling from a database?
Reading the browser's language settings?
Letting the user choose from a dropdown/hyperlinks to see what they want to view?
There should actually be no problems with fr-fr/en-us displaying on the same page in the least.
- UndoUndo0
ha - encoding problems then, i have always wondered about that - maybe two iframes or loading a html page into a div?
- bedenken0
Thanks for the input, but I am just curious to see a url displaying two languages on a single page. That's all.
- UndoUndo0
bedenken thats what I'm talking about - iframes or loading complete html pages into divs
- flavorful0
... I don't get it.
There is no problem with this, haha.
Well no problem with French/English.
Perhaps getting into Vietnamese/Greek would pose problems with their characters having accents above and below certain ones, but other than that there is no problem that exists with showing French and English text on the same page.
- UndoUndo0
i think the problem is the encoding for two different charcters sets ie english and Greek etc
- bedenken0
Flavorful... there is no problem, I was asking if anyone had examples of it in use.
- flavorful0
Throw Arabic in there too, with right to left, however, that shouldn't be a problem either really.
I've been dealing with a client that has 21 languages needed to display their content.
If you're rocking a database to display the content, add a new NLS table.
If you're not, use XML files for each language.
Always use the appropiate codes as well:
- Bluejam0
check out COLORS magazine (the actual printed thing). they use some really nice clean and simple page layouts to display two langauages on the page. no reason why they couldn't work on the internets...
- CincodeMayo0
2 langs don't make a right.
- radar0
display pig-latin & engrish side by side!