Translating website for Right-to-Left languages

[Fat Tone]

Hi

I have plenty of experience translating my website into other languages, and can now handle most you can throw at me, including Japanese. Now I need to do it for a raft of new languages, including Arabic, which is right-to-left.

Can anyone say what is involved here? All my page text content comes from a database, but the layout is hard coded. Some sections are tables of option buttons. Plus its not just the webpages, it also generates some pdfs that are a mix of static and dynamic content.

To do the translation I generally have a translator type the content directly into a webpage designed for the purpose, plus they provide me the static content for the pdfs which we lay out in Illustrator

Any insight welcome!

Thanks,

T.

[Jammrock]

Example site?

[Fat Tone]

Hi Jam,

Not really as it is a paid-for online tool. I could set up a free access for you if it would help - do you have experience of this stuff?

Thanks

T.

[Jammrock]

There are some online translation APIs that can handle most of the work for you. Many are pay for, but they work okay.

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/tools/

http://code.google.com/apis/language.../overview.html (becoming a pay for tool)

What code base do you use for your site?