Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Many websites exist in more than one language, and more and more websites are made available for more than one language. Yet, building a website for more than one language doesn’t simply mean translation, or localization (L10N), and that’s it. It requires a few more things, all of which are related to internationalization (I18N). In this post we share a few tips for international websites.Google's Six Tips For International Web Sites [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]
1. Make pages I18N-ready in the markup, not the style sheets
2. Use one style sheet for all locales
3. Use the [dir='rtl'] attribute selector
4. Use the :lang() pseudo class
5. Mirror left- and right-related values
6. Keep an eye on the details