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For a web app, what is the least painful way to achieve internationalization? What language/framework would you use if you were writing a fresh one from scratch

by kniwor 17y ago

For a web app, what is the least painful way to achieve internationalization? What language/framework would you use if you were writing a fresh one from scratch? I had tried to convert a php web-app to handle utf8 correctly through and through a few years ago and gave up after a lot of pain. Is life any better now? Any guides/resources? Is life in ruby or python frameworks significantly better in this respect?

gord 17y ago
With PHP / lamp stack utf8 is reasonably well supported. hmm maybe 'supported' is misleading - its a melange of hacks, but you can get it done, certainly.
geedee77 17y ago
I've always done it with MS stack. ASP.NET, SQL Server etc all seem to handle unicode correctly (as long as you don't expect your users to still be on IE6!).