How to build a site in both English and Arabic??
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I am building a WP2.9.2 site that my client wants expressed in both English and Arabic. Right now it’s in English. He is fluent in both languages so he will make the translation. He rejects the idea of a translator plugin (and we do not even know if one exists) on the reasonable grounds that computer translations are prone to serious and ludicrous results. His topics are political, cultural and religious, thus requiring great care with nuance and phrasing that no computer of today can provide.
My question deals with the issue of site structure. I am looking for suggestions.
At the moment, the best approach I can think is is to build a pair of matching sites in sister sub-domains (enlish.website.com and arabic.website.com).
However, I suspect that this approach may not work. I am aware there is an arabic-specific WP version. Probably for good reason, among them the different fonts, left to right, and the needs for language consistency in all the site controls, navigation, etc.
So perhaps a better approach might be to register two domains and install them on my server, one using the basic WP (in english), plus the other using the arabic version of WP, with links between them.
Is that the best way to go? Are there any hosting issues?
Comment, feedback?
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