International Iconography

You have a web site and 400 million visitors from 80 countries drop in for a quick read of your web pages. How many can read the language you used, the acronyms and technical terminology, the local words and slang? Have you used colors that mean good luck or death? If you used a special character set for a language, should the characters run right to left, left to right or vertically? What about displays of dates, numbers, currency, copyright?

Chapter 12 International Iconography contains the following sections:
   In Depth
      Detecting the Language and Country
         Detecting the Language and Country from the Browser
         Detecting the Language and Country with Apache
         Ultimate Choice with PHP
      Language Requirements
      Application-Specific versus Site-Specific
      GNU recode
      GNU gettext
      Spelling
         Word Matching
         Aspell
         Pspell
      Multibyte Characters
   Immediate Solutions
      Creating Country Information
      Storing Country Information
      Retrieving Country Information
      Using Sessions for Country Information
      Finding a Message in Another Language with GNU Gettext
      Finding Text in Other Languages with SQL
      Checking Character Types
      Matching Phrases and Place Names with levenshtein()