Re: FN-FORUM: client question of the day.

date posted 20th June 2007 16:07

I've done this - have a lot to do with China.

You need to use UTF-8 for pages and database. A native Chinese translator is
a must (I have some who can help if needed). There are several variations of
spoken Chinese - including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakanese, Fujianese and
Taiwanese. When it comes to writing, all understand simplified Chinese (try
not to use traditional Chinese).

HTH a bit...

Mike A.


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From: "Derek Almond" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: FN-FORUM: client question of the day.


>
> I'm currently part way through a full site rebuild for a client, and just
> had this sent to me
>
> "quick question - if I wanted to turn our website in to Chinese - would it
> be possible? Would it be something you could do? And what are the cost
> implications?"
>
> Anyone done this before, what's a sensible set of things I need to ask /
> look at. I'm using lang files anyway, so the framework is pretty much
> there
> for this - only I was thinking maybe US English, German, French etc... not
> Chinese.
>
> I suspect most of my problems will come storing the data and writing them
> out using XML
>
> The new version of the site runs php5 / mysql5 Apache on an Apple XServe
> if
> that's relevant.
>
> Am I correct in thinking there is more than one variation of Chinese?
>
>
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