What to choose for a multilingual site with support for Markdown and commenting
- by Kent
I want to publish articles at a multilingual site.
I want to be able to write an article in two languages and have them available on separate URLs:
thesite.foo/english-breakfast
thesite.com/engelsk-frukost
If the users web browser is set to English I'd like to show a small notice at the top of the Swedish version with a link to the English one. The link should have an appropriate rel attribute for a translation (search for hreflang at http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html).
There should be a way to list all articles belonging to these sets: Swedish only, English only, Swedish versions + English only, English versions + Swedish only. I'd like to publish these as four RSS-feeds. And I would like to have two versions of the main site, one in Swedish (showing Swedish versions + English only) and one in English (showing English versions).
I shall be able to write the articles using Markdown, as that is the formatting language I find most convenient.
There should be a way for users to comment. And some kind of way for me to protect myself against comment spam.
I am leaning towards learning Drupal. I suspect I'll have to code this behavior myself as a module. To be frank I'd rather work with Java. Is Drupal the way to go? Or is there something more suitable for this project?
