The Office of the Commissioner of Official languages is at
The rules in summary are:
First page uses all languages, and gives a choice of which one to use
each page has a button to see THAT page in the other language.
E-mail/Usenet/Postal Mail has both languages, or both are released at
EXACTLY the same time. If a mail-out users have choice which to receive,
and each mail-out has an offer of receiving the other version.
There are other rules such as having "bilingual" domain names and such...
Charles MacDonald - Information Management
<My own Opinion unless otherwise credited>
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Original Text
From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>, on 98/12/08 11:40 PM:
To: INET["FAQ-Maintainers" <faq-maintainers@lists.consensus.com>]
On Dec 8, 10:27, Al Gilman wrote:
} Subject: Re: FAQs in two languages
} I suggest that you check out how this is handled on the
} government websites in Canada. They are under fierce pressure
} not to create the appearance of bias, but yet to retain
} functionality.
I concur. They do quite a good job, given the minefield they
live in.
cbc.ca is also a good place to look for such things.
-- Chris Lewis, CyberSheriff (CBC says I am, so it must be true!)For more information on spam, see http://spam.abuse.net/spam Fight spam, support Rep. Chris Smith's TCPA extension: http://www.cauce.org
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