Language translation for my website

[MHUK]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know a way of translating web page output from English to foreign language? The only way I know how to do this is to 'duplicate' each English content page on my site to the foreign language, and set up a simple link to that web page in the foreign language. The problem with this is it takes up a huge amount of extra webspace...eg. if I wanted vistors to have the option of two extra foreign languages I would have three times as many pages as I started with (the English content pages plus the two extra foreign language pages)

Is there not a way or function in Java script of simply translating the english content page by clicking a button?

Thank you for any help. Much appreciated.

MHUK

 

[viol8ion]

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

has a webpage translator that works online. You input the URL and it translates. If youplay with it, you will see there is no way, yet, toautomatically and ACCURATELY translate from one language into another. The results are often humourous.

So, no, there really is no way to automatically translate, nor would you want to. The only way to translate is to have a person fluent in all languages involved manually translate, and to post a page in each language, and preferably to have the site set up with sub-directories for each language.

When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

http://www.wuli.com

 

[ChrisHunt]

You can get it done on the fly by (paid) services like

http://w4.systranlinks.com/

but the quality of the translation can be very poor compared to the human equivalent.

When I occasionally translate documents into English from other languages, I put them through a couple of different machine translators and combine the results with some common sense and occasional recourse to a dictionary. The raw results rarely make much sense.

The real issue with storing versions of your site in different languages is not the space it takes - disk space is dirt cheap these days - but the cost of getting good translations done and the headache of keeping all the pages in step. If only you could do it "by clicking a button".

Since it's Christmas, I have a present for you- an English-to-English translator! How about Tek-Tips translated for rednecks?:

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=redneck&url=http://tek-tips.com&inside=1

Enjoy!

-- Chris Hunt

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[BabyJeffy]

MHUK...

Please check my posting to your question in the Javascript forum:

thread216-733755

Cheers,
Jeff