AW: AW: Re: Russian Language Support

Then a hex-code option has to be configured for every language individually,
too. Maybe as an additional checkbox to every single language definition (in
the Language Menu). Besides, I really do not know wether the hexed URL is an
advantage for Google indexing.
On the other hand this has a strong impact to many url generating ZMS
functions. So we should discuss the topic. Maybe you can provide a code
proposal?

Of course the easiest way would be a DTML method duplicating once the
English titlealt recursively and expanding it by a specific suffix like
"_ru" or "_e4711" to make it specific for the russian language. 
Just as a super fast solution....

Best Regards
fh, moderator


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Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Im Auftrag von Tobias Greitzke
Gesendet: Samstag, 17. Mai 2008 20:08
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: AW: [zms-developers] Re: Russian Language Support

Dear Mr. Hoffmann,

thank you for the hint. We are using "DC.Identifier.URL.Node" for URL
manipulation already but manually editing all the URLs wouldn't be very
convenient for the users. In that particular case the site counts about 450
single pages.

Anyway, thinking about the problem I was taking a look at some other russian
sites like rambler.ru and found that they are using english declarative
URLs. Same thing on chinese sites etc. - well - they have fare more special
characters then us and no ASCII replacements. So there seems to be no useful
way to deal with that problem.

The only page I found that really got a solution is wikipedia.org.
They are using Hex-Coded URLs like:
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B
0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0

Even if this would would be very easy to do, I'm not sure if Hex-Code URLs
are a good solution. They look very ugly - don't they?


Would it be possible to integrate an option flag into the language 
settings to selectively turn off declarative URLs or set them to a 
default language?

Kind regards
Tobias Greitzke