Hi Cameron, One of the developers at EP, Mr Ruwen Jin, is from China. To my knowledge there is no problem with Chinese text but I will ask him to take a look. I know we have sites with Arabic, Thai and Japaneese content and I think Elektrolux has a Chinese intranet site. I will ask Ruwen to provide you with some sample pages. Best regards, Mikael Runhem, EP Research (m@episerver.com)

Hi, I have just create one page at http://r.ep.se/AboutEPiServerInChinese It contains information about EPiServer in Chinese. As you can see since EPiServer use utf-8 it handle chinese text with no modification.

The search engine in EPiServer uses the individual words to build the search index. Ruwen explained that the Chinese language do not have any spaces between the signs, so there might be a problem using the built-in search engine in EPiServer... Does anyone know? /Mike

Oh! That's an interesting point. The client we are looking at this for already has a Verity K2 license which they use. Maybe this will be able to assist. I'll check with the client. By the way, in my original post I mentioned were looking at providing, on each template, the ability to enter a Chinese translation if the client wishes to. The idea being that if the end user consumer of the website want a Chinese translation we will serve them the Chinese content if it was provided, else they will get the English version. Does this make sense to do it this way? Difficult? Any hints or suggestions most welcome and appreciated! Cheers from Oz! Cameron

Hi, The multilingual approach with one master language (in your case Chinese) and one "fallback" language (English) is pretty common. We use it on our episerver.no site. If you enter the page http://www.episerver.no/templates/PageWithRightListing____6491.aspx this page will be in English, since no translation to Norwegian is available and therefore the fallback language is shown. I am not a developer, but I know the multilanguage features has it challanges.. These functions will be modified in version 4.60, planned för spring 2006. Just a hint regarding the Verity Search engine: The Swedish Verity distributor Lemontree (contact: thomas.martinsson@lemontree.se)is developing an integration module for EPiServer and Verity Ultraseek. I do not know if this module would work with K2 but you might mention this to your Verity people. Best regards, Mikael Runhem, EP