Re: [atlarge-discuss] RE : [atlarge-discuss] Forum Usage at dot-org

["Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name>]

On 15 Jul 2003 at 22:07, Jeff Williams wrote:

>   Indeed it is true that php makes language translation more
>   difficult,
> but still doable.  If the ICANNATLARGE.ORG web site was
> HTTP based translation is very simple as Jeff H., has indicated.

The above makes no sense whatsoever.  The use of PHP doesn't hinder 
(or help) translation in any way.  It's merely a server-side language 
that allows the creation of dynamic content, but the end result is to 
generate HTML that is served by HTTP, like any other Web page, and 
just as capable of being fed to an automated translator (e.g., 
Babelfish: http://babel.altavista.com/ ).

Automated translators, however, are not very good in quality; human 
languages are resistant to automation (because us humans aren't as 
rigorously logical as computers, and thus our languages are subtly 
ambiguous in many ways that computer languages aren't).  Thus, to 
have a true multilingual site, it would be necessary to make human 
translations of the content, which is completely independent of what 
technical means (PHP, HTML, HTTP, etc.) are used ultimately to serve 
the pages.

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