Language/locale indicators
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:18 pm
I'm considering adding a multi-language feature to my CMS, while I have seen many solutions rely on cookies, this is obviously not a good thing for SEO/SEF, etc. The URI seems a logical place, maybe even the extension could be used to indicate the language which is desired.
I'm curious if you were building a CMS that supported multi-langauge features, how would you persist that requirement across page requests? Sub-domain?
I've always thought, having a site translated would warrant a different web site, and likley the purchase of a new domain, like domain.fr (french) or domain.ch (chinese), etc. At least this appears to be how big corporations do it and it makes sense IMHO, but it's a very cmomon feature request for small/medium CMS builders to have this functionality in-built.
What says you? New installation and database, etc? Or implement this funcitonality inline with other languages?
I'm curious if you were building a CMS that supported multi-langauge features, how would you persist that requirement across page requests? Sub-domain?
I've always thought, having a site translated would warrant a different web site, and likley the purchase of a new domain, like domain.fr (french) or domain.ch (chinese), etc. At least this appears to be how big corporations do it and it makes sense IMHO, but it's a very cmomon feature request for small/medium CMS builders to have this functionality in-built.
What says you? New installation and database, etc? Or implement this funcitonality inline with other languages?