Is it possible to create INTERNATIONAL permalinks?

Question

i was wondering how you deal with permalinks on international sites. By permalink i mean some link which is unique and human readable. E.g. for english phrases its no problem e.g. /product/some-title/ but what do you do if the product title is in e.g chinese language?? how do you deal with this problem? i am implementing an international site and one requirement is to have human readable URLs. Thanks for every comment JavaScript questions and answers, JavaScript questions pdf, JavaScript question bank, JavaScript questions and answers pdf, mcq on JavaScript pdf, JavaScript questions and solutions, JavaScript mcq Test , Interview JavaScript questions, JavaScript Questions for Interview, JavaScript MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

Answer 1

Characters outside the ISO Latin-1 set are not permitted in URLs according to this spec, so Chinese strings would be out immediately. Where the product name can be localised, you can use urls like //DIR/, e.g.: http://www.example.com/en/products/cat/ http://www.example.com/fr/products/chat/ accompanied by a mod_rewrite rule to the effect of: RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/product/([a-z]+)? product_lookup.php?lang=$1&product=$2 For the first example above, this rule will call product_lookup.php?lang=en&product=cat. Inside this script is where you would access the internal translation engine (from the lang parameter, en in this case) to do the same translation you do on the user-facing side to translate, say, "Chat" on the French page, "Cat" on the English, etc. Using an external translation API would be a good idea, but tricky to get a reliable one which works correctly in your business domain. Google have opened up a translation API, but it currently only supports a limited number of languages. English <=> Arabic English <=> Chinese English <=> Russian