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Unfortunately, the internationalization process is extremely complex. If you try to cover everything in one article, it'll end up running on for ever. In this article, I decided to focus on the technical aspects. In order not to let the other details obscure my explanation of the code, I was forced to simplify other parts.

I've written up some other thoughts how to best organize files and handle the actual process of getting the text into the system. I posted it on my web log. Check them out and please add comments and suggestions.

PS: To the person who felt since I chose not to use Greek and Japanese in the article is an indication of a deficit in LAMP, you're wrong. Non-Western characters don't always render correctly in all browsers. Since if people can't read the article, it's not very helpful, I made the choice to stick to English and Spanish. You can read more on PHP's Multi-byte string support in the manual.