Multi language site and ezurl

Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:10:15 pm

Try this

<ul>
       {def $locales=fetch( 'content', 'translation_list' )}
               {foreach $locales as $locale}
                       <li>
<a href={concat("../",$locale.country_code|downcase(),"/",$module_result.content_info.url_alias)|ezurl}>
{$locale.language_name}</a>
                      </li>
                       {/if}
                {/foreach}
        {undef}
</ul>

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Thursday 15 June 2006 12:40:09 am

Note that it is better not to use flags. After all, a flag is a symbol of a country, and there is no one-to-one mapping between countries and languages.

I find it quite disturbing that ez.no is using flags. Why should, for example, a Portuguese select the flag of Brasil to select his native language? It's quite possible that a Portuguese does not even know the flag of Brazil.

Besides that, they display the names of the languages in the language of the current page, with the result that a Portuguese who doesn't speak English is not even able to find out that his language is available! If you mention the names of the languages, please put them in the language self: English (or British English or US English, if needed), svenska, suomi, Deutsch, français...

If you need something shorter, you can use the codes defined in the international standard ISO 639, either the two-letter codes of ISO 639-1, such as <b>en</b> for English, or the three-letter codes of ISO 639-2, like <b>eng</b> for English.

Thursday 15 June 2006 6:26:37 am

Hi,

Flags are also an usability problem for the colorblinds. If you don't see the difference between red and green, quite a few 3 bands flags are going to look the same.

At least, put a alt tag with the name of the language.

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