Hi Lee,

I went through the same issue. My approach is far from being orthodox but still works.

First of all, change the templates to use UTF-8 if you require (my website is hosting English, Russian and Georgian contents). Also make sure the DB code page and collation are OK.

As to the template, arrange the content using a root-child folder for each language (e.g. /en, /ru, /ka). Once done, amend the template to add the usual "flag" links to /host/index.php/en, /host/index.php/ru, /host/index.php/ka - omit the index.php if you are using friendly URLs.

HTH.

I think this kind of feature need to be in the next update of C5. I hope it will be a real multilangual CMS, because for now, it isn't really.

"As to the template, arrange the content using a root-child folder for each language (e.g. /en, /ru, /ka). Once done, amend the template to add the usual "flag" links to /host/index.php/en, /host/index.php/ru, /host/index.php/ka - omit the index.php if you are using friendly URLs."

Could someone explain this further? I'm looking to also do a multilingual site, but this sounds really, really complicated.

It might be extra work, but I'm thinking of doing two installations and updating them in tandum.

For example.

mydomain.com (the main site)
mydomain.com/japanese

Do people recommend this? Is there a better way? Is there a switcher I can add on the main site so native Japanese can visit that one? Thanks.

I've created C5-based websites with up to four languages, Swedish, English, Finnish and German.

I created first the home-pages of all four languages, Hem - Home - Koti - Zu Hause and so on... Then I began filling out the content under them.

Then when setting up the menu system, set it to show only level 2 so that it won't list the languages just what it should.

Sitemap:
http://i42.tinypic.com/3521xcp.png...

Working website:
http://www.strandhotellet.fi/
and alsohttp://www.kimito.fi/guide/

How did you get the home page to redirect to the sv directory?

I added

RewriteRule ^/*$ /uk/ [R]

to the .htaccess