Re: any suggestions for creating a multi-lingual site?
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texte = You could do this using Welcome and some fancy rule work. The Welcome PI for Webstar does some pretty neat things. It would allow you to pass the language variable as a fake subdirectory or even read it from the users browser and pass it to WebCat.If you have questions, let me know.Jesse Williams Proudman - NineWire Production http://www.ninewire.com <-> Jesse@ninewire.com Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting> -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > Behalf Of Therio, Dale > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:29 AM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: any suggestions for creating a multi-lingual site? > > > Typhoon Pro v3.04 plugin / MacOS / WS 4.0 > > Hi folks, > > I am developing a site where I want people to be able to choose > the language > for the menus. All of the text will be in a database (no babelfish > translation here!). > > My thoughts are to save the choice of lanuage in a cookie so on return > visits they wll get their lanaguge choice automatically (and can still > change it of course). > > As I would prefer not to pass the langauge choice in the URL > (trying to keep > the URLs as clean as possible) it would seem that I need to read > the cookie > on each page. Having never worked with cookies before, is there a > performance penalty to doing this? Or is the cookie in memory once it is > read the first time? > > Is it possible to read the language choice set in the browser via > webcat? If > so, I could read that value and simply display the menus in that langauge > (if it is one I support). But there is that perfomance question > once again. > > Any other suggestions on making the site multi-lingual? Primarily > the menus > will have a choice of languages, and eventually some of the > content will be > available in different languages as well. > > I am concerned about the performance as I had to remove individual page > (record) counters that I had using the example provided as I was getting a > lot of thread lock files on a daily basis and they did slow the > system down > quite a bit (I am getting around 50,000 page views per day, which is about > 75,000 database searches across 5 databases). The server is currently a > 333mhz iMac with 160 meg of memory. I do expect to upgrade this server to > whatever G4 is available probably in March/April. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards > > Dale Therio > > Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Research > Jürgen-Ponto-Platz, 1 > Frankfurt, Germany > +49 (0) 69 263 19977 - phone > +49 (0) 69 263 11379 - fax > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant > Messaging Server. > To end your Mail problems go to
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You could do this using Welcome and some fancy rule work. The Welcome PI for Webstar does some pretty neat things. It would allow you to pass the language variable as a fake subdirectory or even read it from the users browser and pass it to WebCat.If you have questions, let me know.Jesse Williams Proudman - NineWire Production http://www.ninewire.com <-> Jesse@ninewire.com Innovative and Creative Web Design and Hosting> -----Original Message----- > From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On > Behalf Of Therio, Dale > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:29 AM > To: WebCatalog Talk > Subject: any suggestions for creating a multi-lingual site? > > > Typhoon Pro v3.04 plugin / MacOS / WS 4.0 > > Hi folks, > > I am developing a site where I want people to be able to choose > the language > for the menus. All of the text will be in a database (no babelfish > translation here!). > > My thoughts are to save the choice of lanuage in a cookie so on return > visits they wll get their lanaguge choice automatically (and can still > change it of course). > > As I would prefer not to pass the langauge choice in the URL > (trying to keep > the URLs as clean as possible) it would seem that I need to read > the cookie > on each page. Having never worked with cookies before, is there a > performance penalty to doing this? Or is the cookie in memory once it is > read the first time? > > Is it possible to read the language choice set in the browser via > webcat? If > so, I could read that value and simply display the menus in that langauge > (if it is one I support). But there is that perfomance question > once again. > > Any other suggestions on making the site multi-lingual? Primarily > the menus > will have a choice of languages, and eventually some of the > content will be > available in different languages as well. > > I am concerned about the performance as I had to remove individual page > (record) counters that I had using the example provided as I was getting a > lot of thread lock files on a daily basis and they did slow the > system down > quite a bit (I am getting around 50,000 page views per day, which is about > 75,000 database searches across 5 databases). The server is currently a > 333mhz iMac with 160 meg of memory. I do expect to upgrade this server to > whatever G4 is available probably in March/April. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards > > Dale Therio > > Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Research > Jürgen-Ponto-Platz, 1 > Frankfurt, Germany > +49 (0) 69 263 19977 - phone > +49 (0) 69 263 11379 - fax > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant > Messaging Server. > To end your Mail problems go to . > > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > ------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server. To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to
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