two language website

[eiden]

Hi there,

i've looked around in this forums and i found some threads about this. But i still don't understand it. This is why i ask before i'm going to open an account...

Is it possible to make a Website with two languages?
I want to make a tutorial site in english and german. The posts in this two languages will be a translation of each other, so everybody should see the same. If you want, i can make the main language in english. It will also detect the browser language, so i hope nobody is forced to click the language button.

Thank you very much
Greets

 

[essellar]

Yes. As long as there is an easily-accessible human translation of the site's content in English, French or Spanish, you can use whatever other language you want. The "supported languages" do not have to be the primary/default language for visitors to the site; your primary interface can be in German as long as it's obvious how to get to the English version. And because the requirement is for a human translation (mostly because machine translations can vary between absolute gibberish at worst and occasionally misleading at best) it's understood that there will be some lag between the time that user-generated content (questions and comments) are posted and the time that a proper translation becomes available -- just don't leave it too long.