| Several of my related articles about PHPBB2, the | | | | Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Esperanto; |
| open source program that helps webmasters | | | | Estonian; Farsi; Finnish; French; Galician; German |
| create and maintain internet forums, touched on | | | | [simplified and formal]; Greek, Hebrew; Hungarian; |
| many of the technical aspects of the program. | | | | Icelandic; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; |
| What you may not know is that PHPBB2 has a | | | | Kurdish; Lithuanian; Macedonian; Mongolian; |
| worldwide audience with the potential to reach | | | | Norwegian [2 dialects]; Polish; Portuguese [2 |
| more than half of the world's population in their | | | | dialects]; Romanian; Russian [2 dialects]; Sakha; |
| native language. Chalk it up to a combination of | | | | Serbian [2 dialects]; Slovakian; Slovenian; Spanish |
| expert programmers and wonderful translators | | | | [2 dialects]; Swedish; Tatarish; Thai; Uighur; |
| who have made this feat a reality. Without their | | | | Ukrainian; Vietnamese; and Welsh. Yes, English is |
| hard work, the software's reach would be quite | | | | also one of the programs!If you are one who |
| limited. Let's take a look at how translators have | | | | favors international goodwill than you can |
| expanded PHPBB2 to the far corners of our | | | | appreciate as much as I do the many and varied |
| world.As with any software program, expanding it | | | | languages as well as cultures represented because |
| beyond one's native language presents its own | | | | of PHPBB2. To further the software's reach, |
| special challenges. Not only must you write the | | | | PHPBB encourages the creation of additional |
| code correctly, but you must translate it into | | | | translations. A knowledge base to help translators |
| various world languages, many of which are | | | | out in their quest is listed right online.As I |
| distinctly different from others.I am impressed by | | | | mentioned elsewhere, PHPBB2 is a free program |
| PHPBB2 as it has expanded the reach of forums | | | | one that virtually anyone around our wonderful |
| well beyond English and Western speaking | | | | planet can access and translate into their own |
| countries to Asia, Africa, and South America. | | | | language provided they have a computer and |
| Indeed, not a continent is not represented save | | | | internet access. One has to think that this bit of |
| for Antarctica. Then again, if penguins knew how | | | | goodwill can go very far. Let's hope so...our world |
| to communicate on our level I am sure a program | | | | needs every bit of it!Copyright 2005 -- Matthew |
| would be made up especially for them!So, exactly | | | | Keegan is The Article Writer who writes on a |
| who is represented? I am glad that you asked! | | | | variety of topics including: advocacy, automobiles, |
| The following is a complete list of 60...count 'em | | | | aviation, business, Christian themes, family, news, |
| 60 languages:Afrikaans; Albanian; Arabic; Asturina; | | | | product reviews, travel, writing, and more. |
| Azerbaijani; Basque; Bosnian; Breton; Bulgarian; | | | | Samples from his portfolio are available right online. |
| Catalan; Chinese [simplified and traditional]; | | | | |