No Barriers

Since one of the goals of this project is sharing Ananda's spiritual resources to every sincere seeker worldwide, how can we do this when not everyone reads English? Fortunately, ASP.NET, offers our developers powerful tools to build a multilingual application. Ananda Resource Library will be built from the ground up to be "browser culture" (or language) aware. Each user establishes a default language when using a browser to view Internet based content. ASP.NET has built-in capabilities to sense what language a browser is set to before it delivers content. For in-depth research, refer to this MSDN article. For non-ISO languages, check out this article.

Does this mean that English text will "automagically" be translated on the fly. Unfortunately, this is not the case. At least not yet! However, one website framework (rather than many) can be used to support many languages. There are automated webtools to translate text from one language to another for free. However, their accuracy (and appropriateness) would be a topic for conversation and another post!

One of the team's first steps will be to decide what languages to build for, in addition to English. My guess is that Hindi, Italian, Spanish and German will definitely be mentioned with others to be added.

The title of this post is "No Barriers". Unfortunately, millions in this world still do not enjoy ready access to the Internet. Let us hope as Dwapara continues to unfold, the number of individuals who can reach the Ananda Resource Library website increases by a significant percentage each passing year. Are you just a little curious just how many individuals in the world do have internet access?