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