I see some good suggestions in SO for creating multilanguage websites in JavaScript including this article on JavaScript internationalization. However, I am finding it more difficult to determine best practices for developing multilanguage websites where one of the languages is read left-to-right and another is read right-to-left. Do you know any best practices for this task?
The user may change language mid-stream - perhaps from English to Arabic.
A good practice would be to use the lang attribute to describe which language is being used: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html
I would define the language within the Head, and if necessary locally within the document.
You don t mention which doctype you are using, but if you are using XHTML then there are also xml lang attributes to consider: http://www.w3schools.com/Xhtml/xhtml_syntax.asp
I don t know if it is best practice , but when I worked on an english and arabic site recently I found it useful to use CSS classes for setting rtl and ltr.
I also found a lack of information regarding best practices for a RTL site.
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