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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:26:49+00:00

I have a client that wants to store data in a MySQL database with

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I have a client that wants to store data in a MySQL database with multiple languages (English, French etc) and be able to retrieve the data (in the same specified language). ie: we have an English description of a product (varchar), which we intend to rewrite in French, and then on the server side find the description in the locale that we require.

I thought of wrapping the data in XML with language tags and then parsing the data?

What is the best way to cater for multiple languages from a user data perspective? Is there a framework out there?

J

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think that you could fix the problem with a Master – Detail table model:

    TABLE Product 
--------------------
ID
ID_MANUFACTURER   
EAN13    
WHATEVER

TABLE Product_I18n
---------------------
ID_PRODUCT
ID_LOCALE
DESC

    When you have to access data in a certain Locale, you have to pass the Locale String to the query, but you don’t need to fight against a localized XML structure…

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