DOCBOOK-APPS: Multilingual DocBook: language handling issues

[David Bovill <david dot bovill at opn-technologies dot com>]

There are a few requests locally for multilingual community based sites - to
support small groups. I am researching into using a Unicode based front end,
with DocBook related tools on the server - perhaps generating PDF's to be
stored on the site?

Could anyone advise on the issues: an example of the languages that we'd
need to handle are:

> Some of the stuff currently used by the
> groups is a little dated and we are trying to find packages that groups have
> found to work. We' d be very interested in finding out how you have gone about
> it and quite willing to share ideas. The langauges we are using for now are :
> english
> welsh            both okay for software
> punjabi
> bengali
> somali
> arabic
> chinese
> gujerati