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Multilingual site

hi experts,

I'm tying to develop a site which will have more then one language. Currently I'm dealing with 2 language. 1. English. 2.Asian Lang.(Right to left)
I like to code which should take care of any language and get me the proper result. By default I want to display english content.

guide me how to have this correctly put up. I'm planing to have 2 databases. one for English and other for Asian Language. Both will have identicial tables and fields only content will be differ.

English Site:-
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Logo (Top Banner)
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Left |
Menus |
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Asian Language Site:- (Writes right to left)
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(Top Banner) Logo |
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| Left |
| Menus |
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Please if anyone has experience with Multilingual site guide me thru. how to have home page code and all inner pages.
Atleast if someone give me sample code for left menus.(Menus.jsp) what will help a lot.

HomePage.jsp includes <top.jsp> and <menus.jsp>
how can I code when its default or english menus should be on left side. And when its Asianlanauge everything should be right aligned.

Thanks in adavance.
PH

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princehyderabad

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>>Why should Asian languages be right to left? I presume you mean Hebrew and Arabic, which are from the Middle-East.
One of Indian languages "Urdu" as well write right to left.

Okay requirment are changed now.

English: will have regular Left menu from DB. top banner as Image and Main content page from DB and DHTML.
AsianLanaguge: top banner as Image, Left Menu as Image, main content page from DB and DHTML.

I think now I should have two folder placing english code in one and Urdu code in other folder. Both will have different DB. Few tables may be identitals.

I think now site is pretty straight fwd. anyone having multilingular experice can provided there experices and guide line .....

thx,
PH

bpmurray

Hmm - I thought Urdu was Pakistani/Afghani, not Indian :-)

You have a choice: you can create separate translated wed sites, but that makes it difficult and expensive to maintain, or you can create a single web site that uses external texts that are included using JSTL bundle tags. If you have only 2 or 3 languages, it's probably easier to do the first part, but if you plan on supporting all 14 (?) Indic languages as well as Urdu, you would be much better off using bundle files.