CSS and translation problems

language drastically changes text length

[Powdork]

I recently found in my referrer logs the following entry (I'll cut it before any goodies)
[216.239.39.120...]
I guess this is Googles translation from english to spanish of my page and I was stoked to see it. Until I scrolled down. The css is set up so that text size changes will only make it bolder and eveything will fit nicely in the <div>s, or so I thought. The spanish translation is simply a lot more characters so its throwing off the alignment similarly to how regular html layers (without css) are affected by someone viewing with 'larger text'.
Is there an easy fix. This is only the first occurrence I've seen in 8 months watching the logs, but we are looking to the latin and south american viewers to expand to in the future. Any ideas (other thatn tables).

[Nick_W]

Make your div's wider?

There isn't really much you can do. When we write Danish sites we very often have to write bad Danish by breaking long words into 2 for this very reason.

I shouldn't worry to much, but if you're looking to expand into that language area a new site/section would undoubtably be better than relying on people using translation tools...

Sorry I can't be of more help ;)

Nick