Web pages in different languages can be very tricky - you could try searching the usual javascript sites and see if you can get one that will try to detect the operating system /browser language settings - but to be quite frank it's far far more trouble than it's worth. Your best bet would be to have a set of links on your start page saying "click here" for each language. Make sure that for each such page that you're using the right character set ![]("http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/ubb/smile.gif")
Front page lets you do this very easily in its page properties dialogue.
I have to agree completely with Thomas about software translation packages. At best they're a high speed typewriter - but you'll spend ages and I do mean ages correxting a series of hilarious mistakes.
The alternative route is to get one written for you - the best I ever saw was translating patent documents in a particular field of research. The downside was that it took several years to develop and ran only on HP's flavour of Unix. - A bit excessive!
A further point - English is an especially "bad" source language for machine translation - simply because its vocabulary is so huge, and its grammar so difficult. (The very things that make it such a wonderfully flexible language.) You can also have difficulties between dialects - the disparities between the UK and North American usage being the best known case.
- Twist it you can horribly, laws of usage break permanently but motivation still come out
(sort of! )
Software companies such as Microsoft spend a fortune on localisation for just this reason.
Sorry to be so discouraging.
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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com
Email Address: marksaunders@techie.com
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[This message has been edited by gorilla (edited 08-06-2001).]
