Internationalization/Multilingual products

Multilingual products

This page is to discuss how to handle products that have text in multiple languages on their label.

Problems addressed

• Single products with more than one language on the label
  • Bilingual products
    • Products where all the texts on the label are in two (or more) languages
    • Common in bilingual countries (Belgium, Canada...)
    • e.g. most Cora products have all the text in French and in Dutch: http://world.openfoodfacts.org/brand/cora
• Products with some information in multiple languages
  • e.g. ingredients and nutrition facts in many languages
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Problems not addressed

• Products that have different labels in different languages, with the same barcode
  • will be addressed by Project:Product versions
• Products that have different labels in different languages, with a different barcode
  • we simply store them as different products
  • we might consider linking the products in some way in a future project
• Translating ingredients
  • will be addressed by ingredients taxonomy