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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Considerations on a Multi-Lingual Site
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:28:26 -0800
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Andreas, folks:

You may have already thought of this, but there's two issues that need to 
govern our support of multiple languages on www.postgresql.org:

1) It needs to be possible for translators to translate content without 
knowing HTML, XHTML, or CVS.   Right now, we have 17 volunteer translators, 
but if you limit translation to people who have HTML skills, that gets cut 
down to *three*.   And if you have the translators send you stuff for you to 
correct/markup, you will spend several/many hours per week doing this.
	The approach which Robert took with the Advocacy site isn't bad, except for 
the below issue and that translation elements need to be groupable for 
comprehensaibility.

2) It also needs to be possible for the non-English communities to contribute 
content in some form to their own site without having it first in English. 
I'm thinking of the German & Brazillian communities particularly.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco