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Old 10-05-2005, 01:40 PM
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Default Multilingual crawler page - can it work ?

Hello,
I have spent some of today drafting out a crawler page (meta keywords & description) for my site which has the following full language versions : English,French,German,Spanish,Dutch and Japanese.

One point I have noticed when I went into the various crawler pages of competitors' sites in other language versions is that all of them(WITH THE EXCEPTION OF JAPANESE SITES) have

text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 (as does my site)

When I looked at crawler pages of various japanese sites they don't have the above charset (obviously) but have this instead

text/html; charset=Shift_JIS

Now;I am intending to use english but also non-english words in the meta keywords and descriptions - ie,words in english,french,german,spanish ,dutch and japanese. Obviously,as the european websites
use the same charset ,I 'don't think'(?) there's a problem,but i am wondering,given that
i intend to use a japanese word in my meta page
keywords/descriptions,whether i need to make a note of
charset=Shift_JIS in the crawler page AS WELL as charset=iso-8859-1 .
Can this even be done ,I wonder ?
Should it be done ???
Or should I just leave it as charset=iso-8859-1 - or will this conflict ???

If this sounds a little ridiculous - it probably is ! I apologise - I am not the website developer and am approaching this from the viewpoint of someone with limited knowledge / expertise (sorry !)

Thank you ; I would really appreciate any guidance and constructive comments you might have.
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Old 10-05-2005, 04:03 PM
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Red_Ken

First of all... Welcome to WPW!

I am not clear from your post if you are presenting different urls for the different language translations for your Site or not. I would advize that you go www.mydomain.com/spanish for example, and make a different folder for each language translation, with your index.html in each, linking all of them from a master index.html page.

If it were me, I would approach it that way, and it can't just be mechanical translations from on-line translation services, out there.

Those need to be "translated" further, by a real person.

Feed us a little more info.

Ken
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Old 10-06-2005, 04:27 AM
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Thanks for that....and also for the welcome.
I've been lurking here for a while and decided it was finally time to put my head above the parapet,so to speak !
Thanks for the advice - am going to consult the web developer and see what his thoughts are.
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Old 10-06-2005, 02:54 PM
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Default use Sub-Domains

You can use subdomains for storing pages of different countries, it will help in organizing the many languages.
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