Hi all, While the group is primarily an English language group, there is no policy preventing anyone from posting in their native language if they have trouble expressing or communicating their issues in English. As mentioned previously, the machine translations can sometimes do a bad job in translating a message (although sometimes humourous), and might not allow the poster to correctly describe the issue they're facing. More often than not, there are other developers in the community who speak the same language that can reply back with some helpful information.
That said, members who post here should try their best to post in English first and try to get their point across. If that fails, feel free to post in your native language. If posting in multiple languages ever starts affecting the usability of the forum for the majority of its community, we can always consider splitting out this group into multiple groups per language. Cheers, -Sumit Chandel 2009/8/26 Ian Bambury <[email protected]> > 2009/8/26 Roy <[email protected]> > >> >> Is there a policy that no language other than English can be used in >> this group? If so, I would suggest Google auto inserting the >> translated English text below whatever language used. > > > It's an English language group, so 'yes'. If it were a free-for-all as far > as languages were concerned then it would become much less usable for > everyone. > > Some people in the past have written in their own language with a machine > translation underneath. Answers have been given by English-speakers in > English, also with a machine translation back to the OP's language. That > seems to keep everyone happy and works quite well. > > There's a story that 'To be, or not to be. That is the question.' was > translated into Japanese and then back to English and ended up as 'It is, it > isn't. Isn't it?' It's not a perfect science yet. > > > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
