Developing site in Chinese?

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I have a client that would like to have there english version of there existing site to also be translated in to Chinese. My problem is I have no idea where to start and the potential pitfalls (if any). Does anyone on here have any experience with that?

TIA

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Use UTF-8 as your encoding, and be sure to use a Chinese font.

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Obviously, there would be translation problems, as you couldnt directly translate it… But, only thing that would make it 100% correct is to get a translator to do it for you… Otherwise, putting into a online translator thing (bablefish) would be incorrect language wise… Sorry, cant help you any more than that :frowning:

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I have all of the language translated so that is not a problem. Is there anything that I need to change on the DOC type? Does anyone know what a standard Chinese Font is?

Thanks for the help.

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Maybe, take a look at the source code of existing chinese sites?

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www.bbsland.com is a huge chinese site my dad always visits.

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I’ve written websites in Arabic before, which needed the text direction changed. Apart from that, I can’t recall having any problems with the html.

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[QUOTE=λ]Use UTF-8 as your encoding, and be sure to use a Chinese font.[/QUOTE]
I think the encoding has to be GB2312 (Chinese Simplified) or Big5 (Chinese Traditional). UTF-8 probably won’t support as many characters.

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It’s a two-stage process. First, you convert all your English text into pseudo-broken-grammar-English, then use Babelfish to translate it.

For example:
**original text: **"I am making this website and then translating it into another language"
modified text: “Website what it is, and another language to facilitate to what my kindly does, and what I intend furthermore to complete.”
**translated text: **网站是什么它, 和其他语言促进对什么我亲切做, 并且什么我打算此外完成。

Perfect :slight_smile:

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^:lol:made my day, engrish:lol:

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The translated text of Chinese made absolutely no sense.

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:lol:

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If it’s going to be Flash, then it will be easy but if normal html, if I am not mistaken, you need to have the Chinese language installed on your computer?

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UTF-8 will support exactly as many characters, being a universal character set :wink:

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It will be a normal HTML site. And yes minimalistik I believe I should have the chinese language installed on my PC. My problem is knowing what a default HTML Chinese font is?