Originally posted by leestatic*gasp* What happened to your explosion avatar?
Just wondering in other countries does this site appear in their own languages, with their own forums, and also what the hells a Chinese keyboard look like, surely you can't stick all those symbols on one, do they have to learn english to go on the web??
Originally posted by leestaticAre you serious?
Just wondering in other countries does this site appear in their own languages, with their own forums, and also what the hells a Chinese keyboard look like, surely you can't stick all those symbols on one, do they have to learn english to go on the web??
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Originally posted by leestaticKeyboards:
yep
http://www.twinbridge.com/Products/Other/Chinese-Keyboard_L.jpg
They fit enough symbols to make it work. They're not all but they're quite enough.
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For a site to be in other languages (with different forums), it has to have mirror sites in those languages with different addresses. For example www.google.co.jp is the Japanese google.
It's interesting how things like this are part of the basics for people living in smaller non-English speaking countries yet English native speakers don't even need to think about it... I never realized that people might not know this.
No arrogance intended, actually it's quite the contrary.
Originally posted by leestaticAs I understand it there is no Chinese alphabet to put on a computer keyboard. Chinese characters (and there are 1000s of them) have a semantic rather than phonetic symbolism (ie they have meanings beyond their sound). I'm afraid I can't tell you though if keyboards in China are the same as the English one I'm using.
Just wondering in other countries does this site appear in their own languages, with their own forums, and also what the hells a Chinese keyboard look like, surely you can't stick all those symbols on one, do they have to learn english to go on the web??
To answer your other question, people use English in the forums whatever their native tongue, and they do a staggeringly good job at it. I wonder how those who spend their time criticizing spelling and grammar here would cope if posting in Czech, Dutch, Bengali...