Dear List,

On multilingual web sites:
On my privately run 1800-item web site on artistic life in seventeenth century in Delft (the Netherlands) there are quite a number of manually-translated HTML pages in Dutch, English, German, French. Flag buttons do the trick in choosing. Files on the latter two languages are
incomplete as my private knowledge is sketchy. I have had help from friends here and there.

My experience with Babelfish and the likes of on-the-fly tanslation machines is that they yield barely enough output to get an idea of the contents ; it often still yields silly to ludicrous results. My text on the painter Van Gogh translated from English into French stuck to the
French word for Van = Camionette so that every "Van Gogh" turned into "Camionette Gogh". Etcetera. I am sure more expensive commercial packages will do a better job.

Yours sincerely,

Kees Kaldenbach,
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden
http://www.johannesvermeer.info

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Star Meyer wrote:

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>
> > Who has language options on their web site?  Are these pre-translated
> > options or do you use something like GoogleFish to translate on the fly?
>
> The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, Italy, has a completely bi-lingual
> web site in Italian and English. The home page presents "mirror-image" main
> category choices that automatically implicate language choice:
> http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org
>
> We have been told by "visitors" that they appreciated this approach and,
> personally, I much prefer it to having to click on a flag, although our
> solution may not be viable when many languages are available.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Star Meyer
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