[Sigia-l] Question on multilingual sites

[Jan Knight]

Hi:
I'm having a bit of a "discussion" with someone on how to identify pages 
of web sites that are in different languages.

Are there standards for the following or does anyone have comments - 
anecdotal even?

If a site has primarily English content but also has some content in 
Spanish dotted around, my take is that everything on the English 
interface should ALL be in English. Now, I'm not talking about a site 
where there is an entire translated equivalent site, just one where some 
pages or articles are also provided in Spainish.

I think that if you're in the English interface you should see a link 
that says "In Spanish" rather than say "en Espanol."   Therefore, if 
you're in the Spanish side, you should see a link that says "En Ingles 
(or whatever the correct term is :-).  

My colleague says it's ok to have "en espanol"  as the title of the link 
even in the English page. He and I disagree obviously.

Any resources or opinions would be appreciated, even if they do not 
support my side of the discussion.

Thanks so much.
Jan

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