Languages

[JoaoGenerico (imported)]

So you are accepting stories in Portuguese? Which languages are accepted?

[skivvynine (imported)]

There may not be very many people who speak Portuguese. German seems to be popular as well as Spanish.

[devantier (imported)]

I Wish There Was A Way To Translate The Stores For The Other Languages To English. That Way I Know We All Could Enjoe Them.

[skivvynine (imported)]

There is someone that is translating the stories in German. I do not think there are very many people on this site knows any other language other than English. There have been stories written in both French and Spanish that have not been translated

[Kortpeel (imported)]

So you are accepting stories in Portuguese? Which languages are accepted?

Given that Portuguese is a very widely spoken language: Brazil, Angola, Mocambique, Goa, not to mention Portugal itself and the large Portuguese speaking community in South Africa, I'd recommend that Joao submits a story (or more) in Portuguese. So get writing Joao.

Kortpeel

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

The real barrier may be that there is no story editor/moderator that can approve a story in Portuguese. --FLO--

[JesusA (imported)]

I think there are actually two issues that need to be considered for non-English stories on the Archive:

1) There needs to be a trusted member of the Archive who can read the story in the original to make certain that it both meets the content standards of the Archive and that it is reasonably well written, without major grammatical and spelling errors, and

2) that it is in a writing system that the server can handle.

There was a very nice story submitted in Japanese a while back. I read and approved it for content and construction, but the system cannot handle Japanese characters. I believe that Greek and Cyrillic alphabets are supported in addition to the Roman alphabet used in English and other western European languages, but someone else would need to do the experimentation to be certain.

While it would be nice to have translations between all of the languages supported on the Archive, that will need to be a labor of love by those willing to spend the time to do the work. Otherwise, you will need to use Babblefish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn) or some other machine translation system.

[fhunter]

Cyrillic is supported. But how it is supported is a good question.

We have the whole zoo of russian encodings: cp866 from dos, koi8-r аnd koi8-u from unix-like systems, cp1251 from windows. And this list not includes more exotic ones like iso8859-5, mac-cyrillic and others.

Also unicode can be used, and it is more and more common.

Stories which I looked up were in cp1251.

One of them was encoded with numeric character references... (and I thought what there was no perversions in HTML).

There was no trace of a <meta charset > tag - so the browser was guessing on charset.

[Paolo]

My policy was, back in the day, that I would accept any story in any language that I could get a semi-literate translation of. This is up to Plix, now, of course.

As for the character set problems, you can change your VIEW character set in your browser easily enough if you are seeing "data salad." Sometimes that will cure it, sometimes not.

[gpb3aol (imported)]

As for the character set problems, you can change your VIEW character set in your browser easily enough if you are seeing "data salad." Sometimes that will cure it, sometimes not.

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Could you put that into english so I could understand WTF you said?