Re: [Moderator Action] Re: Multilingual Web Site Architecture

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At 07:26 1999/12/06 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote:
> And for those who are using a server that supports .ASP, I have had excellent luck with doing the
> dectection for which pages are available at runtime using the FileSystem object.
> 
> Now any time I get a new translated page, in any language, the page instantly shows up in the
> language list at the bottom.
> 
> michka
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Anders Bandholm <Anders.Bandholm@uni-c.dk>
> To: Anders Bandholm <Anders.Bandholm@uni-c.dk>; Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>; www
> <www-international@w3.org>; i18n <i18n-prog@acoin.com>; nelocsig <nelocsig@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 4:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Multilingual Web Site Architecture
> 
> 
> > In the post below I outlined a strategy that we have been using at the
> > European Schoolnet, ( http://www.eun.org )
> >
> > It was a design criteria, that the architecture should not depend on any
> > special Apache features, and therefore the construction of the "static
> > language sites" was done in a batch process outside of Apache.
> >
> > If you are prepared to use Apache and mod_perl on the job you can do some
> > very interesting optimisations on the described strategy:
> >
> >  * using the Apache ErrorDocument directive we have created a script that is
> > called whenever a "404 Object not found" occurs. This script figures out if
> > the file really does not exist, or if it is just a missing link ( :-) - if
> > it is just a symbolic link missing, it adds it.
> >
> >  * using mod_perl you can play a trick: When the user access a static
> > language site (e.g. www.fr.eun.org) a "PerlInitHandler" inserts a phony
> > "Accept-Language" header into the request. This simple trick does exactly
> > the same as the symbolic link strategy - but dynamically!
> >
> > The trick with mod_perl is amazing in the sense that all the code we wrote
> > for builiding and maintaining the symbolic links can be replaced with a few
> > (5-10!) lines of perl code - and as an added benefit this means that the
> > language sites or always up to date: If a new translation of some pages is
> > added to the site, it is immidiately active on the relevant fixed language
> > sites as well...
> >
> > To summarise, our architechture allows us to:
> >
> >   * have content available in any number of languages
> >
> >   * allow the user to choose a "site" that offers content negotiation
> >
> >   * for the benefit of users that can't (or don't want to) use content
> > negotiation offer "sites" with fixed languages (or more precisely: fixed
> > language priorities)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anders Bandholm <Anders.Bandholm@uni-c.dk>
> > To: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>; www
> > <www-international@w3.org>; i18n <i18n-prog@acoin.com>; nelocsig
> > <nelocsig@egroups.com>
> > Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 9:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Multilingual Web Site Architecture
> >
> >
> > >The EUN (European Schoolnet, http://www.eun.org) has a language
> > architecture
> > >based on Apaches capabilities in "Content Negotiation", but as a supplement
> > >a set of "static language sites" are built for each language.
> > >(www.en.eun.org, www.fr.eun.org, etc.) As a result, users can have their
> > >browser select the language, or they can select a fixed language.
> > >
> > >The fixed language sites are built by copying the directory structure of
> > the
> > >main site, and creating symbolic links to the relevant files. This process
> > >is done by a batch job (takes a few minutes) that essentially simulates the
> > >language prioritisation that a browser would have done.
> > >
> > >The architecture allows an individual file to exist in any number of
> > >languages, and still present the user with the most appropriate language
> > >version.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Anders
> > >--
> > >Anders Bandholm, UNI-C, Aarhus
> > >  E-mail: Anders.Bandholm@uni-c.dk
> > >  Phone:  (+45) 8937-6645   Fax: (+45) 8937-6677    ICQ: 20617502
> > >  PGP: id=0x42691C89; fp=D7DF EF78 0C55 9E9B  C9EA 3D07 6500 A1BB
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
> > >To: www <www-international@w3.org>; i18n <i18n-prog@acoin.com>; Unicode
> > List
> > ><unicode@unicode.org>; nelocsig <nelocsig@egroups.com>
> > >Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 4:52 PM
> > >Subject: Multilingual Web Site Architecture
> > >
> > >
> > >>I received the following question, based on comments that I sent
> > >>to a machine translation email list regarding web site localization
> > >research
> > >>I am conducting.
> > >>
> > >>Does anyone know if any work has been done in this area? Are there
> > >>repositories of templates or models?
> > >>
> > >>Thank you.
> > >>
> > >>>What I am working on now is to define an ARCHITECTURE for multilingual
> > >>>web sites. These sites will be designed for different purposes:
> > >>>informational, e-commerce, information retrieval and extraction, etc.
> > >>>Do you have please any information about multilingual web sites
> > >>>architectures ? Generic models, examples, articles, companies
> > >>>proposing such architectures, etc.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>--++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >>Suzanne Topping
> > >>Localization Unlimited
> > >>(Globalization Process Improvement Consulting and Training)
> > >>28 Ericsson Street
> > >>Rochester, New York, 14610-1705
> > >>USA
> > >>Phone: 716-473-0791
> > >>Fax: 716-231-2013
> > >>Email: stopping@rochester.rr.com
> > >>
> > >>(Send me an email to join the North East Localization Special Interest
> > >>Group, an email distribution list which acts as a discussion forum for
> > >>localization issues.)
> > >>
> > >
> >
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