Best practice for internationalization

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Hi everyone, and happy new year.
We recently went live with our new web site, all done with Radiant, come
and
visit and leave us some feedback when you get a chance:

My question for the list is we are now looking at creating our canadian
sites (bilingual) and we want to integrate this all into one radiant
site.

What would be the best practice ?

Create subfolder for our US and canadian sites ?

www.warmlyyours.com/us
www.warmlyyours.com/ca

Then should we use language redirect within the canadian to handle en-ca
vs
fr-ca locale?

Thank you

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Christian B. wrote:

Create subfolder for our US and canadian sites ?

www.warmlyyours.com/us
www.warmlyyours.com/ca

Then should we use language redirect within the canadian to handle en-ca vs
fr-ca locale?

Thank you

Hi Christian

What exactly do you want to achieve?

  1. Are the English and French ‘sites’ completely independent in terms of
    the content they have?
  2. Will there be the same content on French and English pages? Will
    each English page have a French equivalent?
  3. Do you want it to accommodate cases where some pages are present in
    English but not in French and vice versa?

I had started a couple of threads about this and these may help:

  1. Initial Discussion -
    http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2007-September/006364.html
  2. The solution I implemented -
    http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2007-October/006881.html
  3. Another discussion -
    http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2007-November/007243.html

Hope this helps. Feel free to ring back if something appeals to you.

Cheers,
Mohit.
1/28/2008 | 11:44 PM.