FreeLists / haiku-web / [haiku-web] Re: International Forums

["Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 8/20/06, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > # What happened to all the content of the forums that were dropped?
> > There may have been useful information there, so it would be good 
> > if it
> > were made available as a form of knowledge base archive somewhere.
> 
> Everything was moved to either the "General" or "Support" forum. 
> Don't
> worry. Nothing got lost.

I knew I had missed something! :-)

> > # I have noticed that forums for languages other than English have 
> > been
> > added. I think you are going to have problems (in the form of 
> > garbled
> > text) with any language that uses an encoding other than existing
> > iso-8859-1; for example, it is possible to post in Japanese, but 
> > the
> > titles become garbled (and therefore unintelligible). I suspect the 
> > same
> > would happen with Chinese.
> 
> Maybe we should have separate boards for every language (like with
> separate HUGs)? That way, other languages could have multiple forums
> without completely overloading the interface of the English version.

Yes, that would be better, IMHO. Will try to cover that aspect as well 
on my proposal.

Koki

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