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How Are You Accomplishing Your i18n?

Posted by Cliff on from the eighteen-letters-between-the-i-and-the-n dept.

cobrabyte asks: "My team has recently been given the task of implementing internationalization (i18n) in our MySQL databases (PHP-interfaced). Essentially, for every article X, we need it presented in any number of languages (once translated). As we were working on gathering the necessary procedures, we were very surprised to find that there's not much organized information regarding i18n using MySQL and PHP. Is the topic of i18n too new to garner any usable info?"

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  1. The same way you do everything else. by Suppafly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hire some Indian outsourcing company to do it for you.

  2. Indian companies are very qualified for this stuff by CyricZ · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Indian companies are often very qualified for doing this sort of work. Considering the pervasiveness of non-English and English in India, they have become experts at including support for numerous languages simultaneously, even those written in very different scripts.

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  3. Re:Indian companies are very qualified for this st by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How many of those projects have been done correctly?

    I know a number of projects which have been outsourced to India, and they have all been done wrong, and quite a few of them ended in disaster. I don't know of a single outsourcing project that has been finished correctly.

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  4. Re:It is just me? by reidbold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i18n is an abbreviation? They really should have chosen something more explicit..

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  5. Re:Indian companies are very qualified for this st by spoonyfork · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't know of a single outsourcing project that has been finished correctly.

    Not all projects are intended to be, as you say, "finished correctly".

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  6. Re:Indian companies are very qualified for this st by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I agree. Alot of projects that I've come across lately aren't really taken seriously. It's busywork, or a project that was started and then dropped mid-way through or something strange...

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  7. Re:Indian companies are very qualified for this st by Suppafly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not sure why I was modded as flamebait, I didn't say anything negative about have indian firms do the work, I just made an observation that using indian firms is the normal way of getting this kind of work done. I'm sure the metamods will vindicate me.