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if you go to the website translate.google.com google can translate redhotpawn into any language you want.
Originally posted by PhlabibitI think the Forums are an important feature of this site and do not agree we should only play chess.
The reason this is not a 'good idea' is RHP would need MANY more moderators to view what is going on in the forum and Admins would need to spend much more time looking into abusive messages sent in a foreign language.
With English only, RHP is able to at least keep track of what is going on.
That's not an excuse for the clowns in this thread, just a simple serious answer to your request and why it will probably never happen.
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Originally posted by FabianFnasIndeed. It translates Finnegan's post like:
No, not with quality, sometimes not even readable.
Originally posted by ThomasterSounds like the translator would make my posts appear silly which cannot be contemplated.
Indeed. It translates Finnegan's post like:
I think the forums are an important feature of this site and do not agree we should only chess.
I wonder how much the need to moderate business forum? Yes we could get paranoid about legal action and I've seen some nice unpleasant news gets stamped in some good discussions. However, I suspect that happens e ...[text shortened]... to volunteer some moderating role, even only be available if Russ needs translation or advice?
Originally posted by NordlysI'm not discriminating against the d-file,
Why are you discriminating against the d-file?
Originally posted by DanTriolaIt's technically infeasible to expect players from goodness knows where using goodness knows what software and goodness knows which fonts to be able to display characters outside the standard WWW character set (which is, very more or less, ISO Latin-1). Characters inside that set more or less have to be displayable by any possible web browser out there, because if they didn't, they would fail part of the HTML Standards. Characters outside it... well, there are quite a few systems in existence which simply cannot display most of them. And even if most desktop computers could, in principle, display them, most ordinary users haven't installed a font containing all tens of thousands of characters in Unicode as their default browser font, often for very good reasons.
I am wondering how difficult it would be to allow characters from Cyrillic, as well as German, to be displayed on this site. When communicating with our Russian friends, my Cyrillic keyboard is not displayed as such, but as a series of numbers, presumably the ASCII codes for the characters.
Can this be easily remedied?
Спасибо
(Typed that it Cyrillic.)
Originally posted by Shallow BlueISO-8859-1 (first - or western - latin character set) was the de facto standard for some time in the computing world, but I do believe it's been more or less deprecated by UTF-8 these days. I find it odd that there are still websites using a latin character set in an international setting.
It's technically infeasible to expect players from goodness knows where using goodness knows what software and goodness knows which fonts to be able to display characters outside the standard WWW character set (which is, very more or less, ISO Latin-1). Characters inside that set more or less have to be displayable by any possible web browser out ren't even capable of displaying chess symbols without resorting to graphics...
Richard
Originally posted by Shallow BlueI've been asking for Thai for over a year now. It's a no go area. RHP just falls behind, yet again! 😠
It does not include the Cyrillic alphabet or the Thai script.
Richard