[lg policy] FAO language policy

Harold Schiffman hfsclpp at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 31 18:54:27 UTC 2009


2.5b Minimum current guidelines for language policy

Guideline
To concur with Member Nations' request that all Web sites be published
in all FAO languages, staff should ensure that the Web site's home
page (at least) is translated into the six languages. This is also so
that the metadata record for the site can be included in the FAO
search engine, the Information Finder.

Do you know about... Language links?

The order in which the language icons should be displayed is always in
alphabetical order in the English language, i.e. Arabic, Chinese,
English, French, Russian and Spanish. Thus languages on a Web page are
always listed as follows:

  English Français Русский Español 2.5b Minimum current guidelines for
language policy
Guideline
To concur with Member Nations' request that all Web sites be published
in all FAO languages, staff should ensure that the Web site's home
page (at least) is translated into the


More information is available at the FAO Web Quality Assurance Checklist.

http://webguide.fao.org/web_publishing/languages/minimum_language/0/
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