Language converter?

[divadiva]

Experts

 

I have a website in php which is in English.I want to convert the website to Chinese.Is there a way to do that?Are there any open source available?Can I use some php code to do that?

If yes would that convert the data coming from database as well?

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Best Regard,

Divya

[genericnumber1]

It really depends how you handle things that would be language unique. Database? Hard coded?

[divadiva]

Both ;I want to convert hardcoded as well as data coming from  database.

[DarkWater]

Anything that anyone could possibly write for this would still only be using a machine translation option, which is hardly as good as human translation, since computers are often wrong.

[divadiva]

Thanks for replying.But ,Is there any solution?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

To get any meaningful output, you would need to hire an human interpreter that is fluent in both English and the Chinese dialect that you want to convert to.

 

Due to syntax rules, word order, word forms, and context specific meaning... to name a few of the problems, you cannot simply convert words or phrases in one language to another and get equivalent and meaningful output.

[DarkWater]

To get any meaningful output, you would need to hire an human interpreter that is fluent in both English and the Chinese dialect that you want to convert to.

 

Due to syntax rules, word order, word forms, and context specific meaning... to name a few of the problems, you cannot simply convert words or phrases in one language to another and get equivalent and meaningful output.

 

Exactly.  For kicks, I sometimes see how web translators translate English to Greek and vice versa.