language translation

sudhakararaog · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 124

please take a look at this website http://www.wechsel-tents.de

my question is about the language used for this website

for any websites that are not in english, how is it possible to display the characters in a particular language as the standard keyword has no options to display certain characters of a foreign language for example = ä this character from the above website cannot be found on a standard keyboard

also the meta content type is charset=iso-8859-1 which would be used for a website whose language is in english

do people use any special software for this

or do people initially type the content in english and use tools like google translate http://translate.google.com and convert english text into a particular foreign language and then simply copy and paste this foreign letters into the html pages of these websites which do not have the language as english

if a website uses a cms then there are modules which will take care of changing the language automatically based on which language a user selects

however in a case like the website above which have the entire website created in a non english language and do not use any cms, how do people go about creating such websites in their html pages as the tags are the same like any normal html page, only the text is different

please advice.

thanks for your help

please also provide any links which have literature in this regard

Seoconsultant786 · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 3

There is tool which you once add in your web site it will translate your web site in any language which you want or client.

cool786 · Joined: 18 Feb 2010 Posts: 4

Its really simple you can get it from any where its depend upon you if you are using Firefox than you can get in it by default.

eastpark786 · Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 25

Its not difficult its really ease you can install translator in you r PC you can take help from it.

lostboy · Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 6059 Location: toronto, canada

What a bunch of useless replies.

What the OP is referring to is the use of extended ASCII characters (see http://www.asciitable.com for examples). In countries where the extended latin alphabet is used, the extended characters with oomlauts (the two dots over the letter 'o'), they can be entered via the keyboard with the use of the function key. The OS generally covers this ability, using the regional settings in the system.

As for translation of the text, some sites will use google translate (which may not always be syntactically correct) and others hire translators to alter the content, it will depend on funding and the creators ability to source translation

nickadams · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Chicagoland

Its a so much easy Install any Translator on your pc. U can use Google Translate service also.