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Re:Ask YC: Are any of you interested in China / internationa... by staunch on Sunday October 14, 2007 @05:20AM (#67614)
I had such a surprising response to my recent project outside the US. It definitely opened my eyes. I've decided every one of my new projects will have an internationalized interface from the beginning. It's so easy to do if you start early and such a pain if you don't. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's a huge competitive advantage for a such small investment.
Re:Ask YC: Are any of you interested in China / internationa... by tocomment on Sunday October 14, 2007 @01:03PM (#67705)
How do you make an internationalized interface?
Re:Ask YC: Are any of you interested in China / internationa... by staunch on Sunday October 14, 2007 @06:28PM (#67777)
All I mean by this is that the user interface is available in multiple languages. In my case this consists of creating a different lexicon file for each language and allowing users to switch between them (based on their Accept-Language header or manual overriding).

I use Catalyst for Perl, so I do this with Catalyst::Plugin::I18N http://search.cpan.org/~bricas/Catalyst-Plugin-I18N-0.06/lib...