Hi Frank, It might not be feasible for members to change their nicknames to English as their nickname can sometimes be related to other online nicknames they use in other technical forums or online accounts. However, I have updated the GWT Discussion Group Charter to reflect a language policy of posting in English first, and then resorting to native language if that fails. This should at least make it so that the message subjects for initial posts are in English. Hopefully this will lead to keeping the group maximally useful, both for English and non-English speakers.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/web/gwt-discussion-group-charter <http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/web/gwt-discussion-group-charter> Thanks, -Sumit Chandel 2009/8/27 Frank Argueta <[email protected]> > > I would request that this group require message subjects and sender > names to be in English. The foreign characters in sender name / > subjects are quite distracting. Alternatively if non-english posts can > be somehow tagged. I can setup a gmail filter to sent them to another > folder or sent to trash as I will not be able to read or respond to > them. > > On Aug 26, 6:56 pm, Sumit Chandel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
