Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: How to deal with non english speaking users

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Posted by Ben Koot on
Hi folks,

A quick and dirty option...

In my travel trade network I face a similar problem. I have created a weblog that shows a category called "BreakingNews" and lists all countries in the world. eTurboNews has local correspondents in 150 countries. The idea is to contact the local reps and explain them they can communicate with their local audience in their own language.

The only prerequisite is that users change the default language setting. This will create a multi lingual news site, where the navigation is localized using OACS internationalization.

Behind the scenes the local reps, who speak English, take care of creating an condensed English language edition, so important issues are dealt with.

The full blog will look rather stupid with all those languages, but if users subscribe to their own (country category)language prefference it all starts to make sense.

It might be an idea to highlight the "change language" feature on oacs.org because the functionality is hidden, conterary to the default oacs install.