Sent by Jukka K. Korpela on 5 March 2007 07:07
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Chris Chen wrote:
> I am help maintain a website that needs to support switching between English
> and Chinese languages (preferrably just by clicking on a button/link). Does
> CSS prescribe a recommended way to do such language switching?
This is a functionality or content issue and not in the realm of CSS. The
main problems is how to organize the site maintenance so that changes will
be made in a coordinated manner.
However, if you use the same markup and the same style sheet, basically
intending to modify the textual content only, then you may need to
consider some "internationalization" issues in CSS. For example, setting
widths in pixels is particularly problematic, since the length and
formatting requirements of a piece of text may greatly differ from the
requirements of its translations. You might find it necessary to divide
the style sheet into two parts, a general part and a language-specific
part.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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