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Wednesday, July 24 2002 @ 05:17 AM EDT
Contributed by: rafacmarcos
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Hi folks,

First of all congrats for the wonderfull work done with Geeklog. I am already using it for my personal website ( http://sasaska.net ).

I am thinking about using it also for a company website but the only problem I have found not to be able to solve with the current Geeklog is languages: we have the same information in several languages. I would like to be able to post news items in several languages. Usually the first and default language would be English but if translations are available then they should appear (as flags or language symbols?) on when seeing the news item.

The needed functionality would be:

- Create a Topic (existing functionality), e.g. "News"
- Add a language to a topic, e.g. "Noticias [es]". I use "es" for Spanish.
- Create a new story/news item called "Story 1" in English (existing functionality) or in other language.
- Add a translation to an already existing story.

The default language presented to Anonymous visitors could be choosed by the administrator, English for example. So when a user visit the website the stories are presented to him in English and <b>in each story there are selectors for the languages the story is translated to</b>.

Does anybody think this functionality would be of interest to others?

Thanks for your time.

Rafa

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 25 2002 @ 02:25 AM EDT

This is a good idea.
But first I think they should change the \"charset\" tag to utf-8 in the header tag.
<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">

Otherwise it won\'t be possible to see more then 2 languages on the same page.
Also, this way people that translate GL will be able to work on the translation & don\'t worry to abut which encoding to use. Also it will be able to use any language in every GL in the world without dependency on the translation type.

Tal

Authored by: laszlo on Thursday, July 25 2002 @ 03:43 AM EDT

Is Geeklog using utf-8 internally (or perhaps Latin1)? Would there be any strangeness if a site were to store data in utf-8? I see you are using html entities; you'd have to shut that off in order to use utf-8... Thanks. Ｔ．ラズロ TL, Tokyo

Authored by: longben on Sunday, November 14 2004 @ 02:22 PM EST

I have the same problem. I want to make my site using at least English AND Dutch, later more languages.

I follow this path:
> I made a DUTCH and ENGLISH usergroup.
> When I write a story I give access rights to the D or E group.
> I give permission to the Group only if I want to have the text to group members alone

Next problem to tackle is, and I need even to start to look into that, is to 'link' the language choice of the user in that way that I give that user also (automatically?) access to the right language group.

Testing this 'by hand' makes me clear that it works. I only now need to update the user details manually.... not so nice. What is the user changes his default language?

First step will be to write a small program in php to do a daily update of the GL tables. And since I am a PHP beginner, will take also some time.

When I did this by hand, it worked fine.

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