Directory: TMS (Translation Management System)

The majority of open source projects, such as Xchat and others, use Gettext to translate the messages and strings shown in their user interface to several languages. The same concept can easily be applied to a Web site or Web application, and that is the objective of this article.

Many wikis cater to a single language target audience. When enough users decide they want to use the wiki in their own language, an offshoot of the original wiki is started (eg. WikiPedia). The various offshoots can be more or less tightly integrated with the original (eg. using InterWiki).

This document is a proposal to extend Zope Page Templates to provide internationalization support. Note that statements of fact below should be read as proposals.

Dans ce chapitre, vous avez converti votre site unilingue en un site internationalisé et potentiellement accessible par tout le monde dans sa langue préférée.

The multilingual functionality is a seamlessly integrated part of Roxen CMS, making it very easy to understand and use:

• Handle multiple character sets
• Language control on a per-file basis
• All files have language support
• Integrated translation aids
• Graceful fallbacks

Base18 is a Zope product which allows to build multilingual portals. It uses Localizer and extends the Zope CMFDefault product to provide a way to translate documents at a sentence per sentence level.

PHP php-i18n mailing list (PHP internationalization project.)