Has anyone done much in the way of internationalization of their site. We are currently running several sites in eCM, moving to WCM and .net and need to be able to internationalize and localize site content. For some languages the entire site is translated and in affect becomes a unique site with separate content records for both sites. English (www.visitcalifornia.com) and German (www.visitcalifornia.de) for example, we scripted the duplication of ever content record and both sites are running in eCM, .com is cold fusion .de is .net. But for other sites we are planning to produce like UK and Australia, most of the content records can be served with the standard English content, some however will need to be localized. Has anyone come up with a good way to manage multiple site in different languages serving up similar content. I have seen other CMS systems that have processes for language but eCM and WCM do not seem to have that outright.

One possibility would be using a custom field to hold the second language content and pulling it via a custom API call (we already have a custom API). The other is to just create a second record with the localized content and have the site template deal with it via a site or language specific tag.

Anyone have a similar issue that have dealt with?

Troy Cantrell