Making Meaning in a Multilingual World
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Talk presented at the Museum Computer Network conference 2015, in Minneapolis, MN. A discussion of some of the considerations for museums and archives when presenting multilingual content online, with particular emphasis on the challenges when working with right-to-left languages such as Arabic.
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Making Meaning in a Multilingual World
- 1. Making meaning in a multilingual world Tristan Roddis, Cogapp MCN Minneapolis, November 2015 @tristan_roddis tristanr@cogapp.com
- 2. Why bother? Worldwide USA Lots more information in 2013 census data!
- 3. • Unicode! OK, I’m convinced. How? 'THUMBS UP SIGN' (U+1F44D) 'OK HAND SIGN' (U+1F44C)
- 4. Backend systems • TMS now fully multilingual • Multi Mimsy XG is too
- 5. Make sure you understand it • e.g. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky
- 6. Make sure processing systems handle it too • e.g. Python 2 versus Python 3 • Create a Unicode “sandwich”
- 7. What about a CMS? • Drupal • Excellent multilingual support • Editing interface also translated • Even better in Drupal 8
- 9. Things to consider • Fallback language • Translation of categories and taxonomies • URL translation
- 10. Translation workflow • Drupal: Translation Management Tool • Third-party services, e.g. Lingotek • Transiflex - free for Open Source
- 11. Right-to-left text • <html dir=“rtl”> • ‏
- 12. Mixed directions
- 13. CSS • Use a pre-processor! • e.g. SASS, LESS
- 14. CSS
- 16. Arabic numbers • Western Arabic versus Eastern Arabic numerals • N.b. read left-to-right!
- 17. Images • Avoid text in images • Reverse image ordering
- 19. Exception: useful to control layout
- 20. Beware web fonts • Unsupported characters, especially for mixed language
- 23. Beware web fonts • Even transliteration can cause problems • E.g. → • See this article on diacritics
- 24. Beware fonts
- 25. Beware fonts
- 26. Beware fonts
- 27. So what do you get?
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Worldwide: L1 speakers: 340 million L2 speakers: 510 million Total: 850 million Total population: 7.3bn =&gt; 12% total &lt; 5% first language USA: English: 80% Spanish: 12.4% and non-English speakers growing: 1 in 11 in 1980, 1 in 5 in 2013 Increase reach, nationally and internationally
- TMS went Unicode in TMS2012
- Article from 2003 buts still v.relevant
- Also: Hijri Camara
- Can composite images on kiosks to save installing fonts Also: Welsh singing aliens for the BBC
- Mixed language in title Also n.b. reversed arrows due to reading direction Viewed in Chrome with Gotham Rounded web font
- Same page, viewed in IE9
- Spoiler: composed characters safer than decomposed
- Brand guidelines specify a very stylized font
- Test with native speakers: large blocks of text hard to read
- So switch to standard Arial for web use