hey everybody<br />
with my site i want it so that when people visit it they can select what language they wnat to view it in by clickin on a flag reprasenting that country, but i dont know how to do it.<br />
could sombody pls help me. thanx<!--content-->well you need to get a very good grip of your own language before you can contemplate translating to other languages. It looks an extremely difficult thing to achieve because different languages have different character sets and huge variations in the size and complexity of there alphabets.<br />
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Read up on unicode - look it up in seach engines. You can buy software to help, but there's lots of limitations. <br />
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You might try just to get it working with western european languages as they translate reasonably well with good software.<!--content-->For your language selector:<br />
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<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_en.html" title="Widgets Explained in English"><img src="flag_gb.png" alt="Flag of Britain"></a><br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_de.html" title="Widgetten Antworten in Deutsche"><img src="flag_de.png" alt="Flagge aus Deutschland"></a><br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_fr.html" title="Widgette a la Francais"><img src="flag_fr.png" alt="Flag de Francais"></a><br />
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Code on each page begins:<br />
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><br />
<html><br />
<head><br />
<title> Your Title Here </title><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB"><br />
<meta name="Keywords" content=" your, keyword, list, here "><br />
<meta name="Description" content=" Your Description Here. "><br />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"><br />
</head><br />
<br />
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Of the en-gb part, the first two letters come from the code list in ISO 639 and the last two letters come from the code list in ISO 3166.<br />
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See also ISO 4217 for codes for representing currency, and then ISO 8601 for formats for date and time.<!--content-->thanx mates, this all look really complicated and i think i may leave it to the professionals....not saying im not professional or nout. thanx for the help and ill give it a go cheers<!--content-->
with my site i want it so that when people visit it they can select what language they wnat to view it in by clickin on a flag reprasenting that country, but i dont know how to do it.<br />
could sombody pls help me. thanx<!--content-->well you need to get a very good grip of your own language before you can contemplate translating to other languages. It looks an extremely difficult thing to achieve because different languages have different character sets and huge variations in the size and complexity of there alphabets.<br />
<br />
Read up on unicode - look it up in seach engines. You can buy software to help, but there's lots of limitations. <br />
<br />
You might try just to get it working with western european languages as they translate reasonably well with good software.<!--content-->For your language selector:<br />
<br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_en.html" title="Widgets Explained in English"><img src="flag_gb.png" alt="Flag of Britain"></a><br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_de.html" title="Widgetten Antworten in Deutsche"><img src="flag_de.png" alt="Flagge aus Deutschland"></a><br />
<a href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"page_fr.html" title="Widgette a la Francais"><img src="flag_fr.png" alt="Flag de Francais"></a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Code on each page begins:<br />
<br />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><br />
<html><br />
<head><br />
<title> Your Title Here </title><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><br />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN-GB"><br />
<meta name="Keywords" content=" your, keyword, list, here "><br />
<meta name="Description" content=" Your Description Here. "><br />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"><br />
</head><br />
<br />
<br />
Of the en-gb part, the first two letters come from the code list in ISO 639 and the last two letters come from the code list in ISO 3166.<br />
<br />
See also ISO 4217 for codes for representing currency, and then ISO 8601 for formats for date and time.<!--content-->thanx mates, this all look really complicated and i think i may leave it to the professionals....not saying im not professional or nout. thanx for the help and ill give it a go cheers<!--content-->