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

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

This is most accurate however I do work with a country that is having 
trouble with their fonts - too many.
So perhaps there is a balance.
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> 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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