Re: [wgo] i18n interface

["Alexander Limi" <limi plone org>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:41:29 -0800, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>  
wrote:

> > - http://site.tld/produkte/meine-produkte
>
> That's a) unclear and b) allows conflicts with languages/locales that
> just happen to have the same translation for that small part of the
> text.

No, it has conflict resolution if the URL fragment is potentially the same.

> > - http://site.tld/de/products/my-products
>
> Yes, I personally think that translating URLs would be a disaster. As
> well as being generally confusing it would mean that
> a) The URL of translated versions of pages would change when the
> translation changes, breaking the unchanging URL rule.

No, URLs are kept, even when translation changes. No breakage.

> b) It would not be easy to guess the URL of translated versions based on
> the English original.

Guessing URLs is not a very fruitful thing to be doing anyway.

The upside is that the translated URLs will give you better Google results  
in that language.

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