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If your site only supports one language, it effectively doesn't exist to much of the world. This walkthrough will discuss the decisions and tools for supporting multiple languages on your site.

The content of the tutorial is as follows (subject to later additions).

Terminology

The essential vocabulary for understanding accessibility issues.

Unicode

• Brief introduction to Unicode & Python tools
• Best practices: normalization, utf-8, etc.

Dealing with translators

Once you have decided to run multilingual you then have to maintain multiple versions of your content.

Static content

• Django's built-in support
• Tools such as Transifex, Google Translator Toolkit, etc.

Dynamic content

• Review of options & tradeoffs
• Details about django-modeltranslation and django-hvad

Multi-lingual search

• Solr strategies
• django-haystack

Front-end challenges

• Strategies for language selection
• URL structure (django-localeurl)
• HTTP language negotiation
• CSS and HTML strategies
• Dealing with mixed LTR and RTL content