what's the best way to have a list with multilingual content

Question

Good day, SharePointers a customer requirement is to have CVs entered in a list with his name in English and a local language. which means we will have a field for each language.

is there a better way to accomplish that in SP 2010?

thanks

Answer 1

Could you not limit it to the following columns?

1. Name (English)
2. Name (Local)
3. Local Language

Answer 2

I wouldn't create a column for every language, unless it is limited to only a few as you will run out of available columns eventually.

Other options include:

• One field that stores all the other non-primary language names

• Create a second list with: Name, Localized Name and Locale columns. Make the Name column at look up to your primary list & Locale could be a choice field with the various locales in it. Enter a row for each localized name for that person. A typical One to Many DB relationship. A stretch goal could be to customize the primary List View to show the related name rows inline.

Answer 3

What if you create another list for CV information. That list should columns: linking id, language(valuelist) and CV-text. By that way there you could have as many languages as you want.