Hi
our 19,000 + pages plus web site has hundreds of pages in three different languages and several pages in 5 different languages. I dont seem to confuse search engines as far as I can tell, but yes we had several people recommend to us to run a seperate site with a seperate domain for each language, but this would complicate things a lot for us.
Also I am using this heading:

<META http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
This should cover Europen Languages, right?

Any opinions on that?

Have a happy day
Jörn

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I am Swiss, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1943 and came first to Costa Rica in 1967.It is the web sites about Costa Rica, where I can apply all the accumulated knowledge I have in advertising, design, photography marketing, three languages and nature.