multilanguage

mb_strlen() is it enough ?

Hi, When counting the length of a utf-8 string in php i use mb-strlen() , example: if (mb_strlen($name, 'UTF-8') < 3) { $error .= 'Name is required. Minimum of 3 characters required'; } As the text fields can accept any language (multilanguage) i want to make sure that php will count mutltilanguage utf-8 characters correctly. ...

Varchar for UTF-8 ?

Hi, I found a similar post about this but still not sure. As i am making my guestbook and so forth multilanguage i changed the collation to uft8_unicode_ci in mysql, everything works as it should, something that i did not think of was the type i use, my guestbook is multilanguage and for the name field a user cannot enter more than 50 ...

Suggestions for big Client/Server project layout and Ivy setup

Hi all, I have a reasonably large (thousands of files) project which is divided between client (100% C#) and server (95% Java with a bit of C#). I have recently introduced Ivy as a test into the server only and it works fine, fetching dependencies and publishing. I could have another ivy config/setup for the client but I should reall...

Multilingual translation - open source framework?

Are there any open source framkework to help with management of content for language translation? Like users can select their language of choice, system will pull in all untranslated text for that language, user can enter their translations, wait for 3-4 other people to verify it then push it live. Similar to facebook translation applica...

Multi-language change without page refresh?

User selects a new language from English to German. Currently the page has to refresh each time to change the text to the language selected. This is fine for IE but on firefox it always asks the user and a bad user experience. Plus if user is in the middle of typing something then has to refresh the text is all gone. So is it possible to...

Multilanguage content tables Q

So I have 1 Content table for storing all system text. (it is a user content website) content_id, Keyword, en, fr, ea, sp, ........ (each of these columns refers to a language ID from the language lookup table). This is fine upto here, but now how do I translate the data stored in other tables - in the lookup tables such as City names...

Drupal multi-language websites examples

Please let me know if you have knowledge about some important sites that use Drupal CMS and have multi-language support. I know this is a job done using some google research but I really need a quick turnaround. I appreciate all the answers. ...