The Travelling Programmer

14 July 08

Internationalization

Today we released some new functionality that I have very high hopes for.  You've always been able to produce web pages in just about any language/character set using ComfyPage but from today ComfyPage itself is now available in Spanish, Portuguese, French and Chinese (simplified).

We have a lot of users from non-english speaking countries and we regularly get support emails in Portuguese in particular so hopefully this should make a lot of people's lives easier.  I dread to think what it must be like struggling through using a piece of software thats in english when you don't speak it.

The way we've implemented it is pretty clever if I do say so myself.  We've ensured that adding more languages will be very quick and easy so our list of supported languages should grow pretty rapidly.  Its all part of our ongoing mission to put ComfyPage into the hands of people who've never had access to anything like it before.  Today is a good day.

Update - 21 July 08

I just added Hindi support in about 20 minutes.  Although building the language support infrastructure took longer than I anticipated we're already seeing the benefits.