Design considerations for a multi-language web application

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Published on 2010-04-28T18:58:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 11:18 UTC
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I was asked by an interviewer today how I would implement Arabic as a second language into a PHP web application. I talked about choosing a unicode encoding for the database and the front-end, and designing RTL friendly user interface modules. And he didn't seem too happy with the answer. I don't really know anything about multi-lingual systems, how would you have answered that question?

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