Program translation useful for single-language sites. (was Re: [Zope3-dev] Picking the language at product instantiation)

[Jim Fulton]

Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
> At 14:43 8/07/2002, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Content translation is really beneficial for multi-lingual sites. I 
>> suspect,
>> however, that multi-lingual sites are much rarer than single-language 
>> sites.
> 
> 
> I would really take the "much" out of the preceding sentence :
> 
> In Europe, even if you do not want to be international, there are a lot 
> of countries which are multilingual.
> Further, sites often want to support english as it is the 'lingua 
> franca' of the web.

Fair enough. Still, I hope you agree that there is still a lot of
value in software translation (i.e. localization) even without
content translation.

Jim

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