[haiku-web] International Forums

Hi,

I just noticed that there has been a reorganization of the forums in haiku-os.org, and I have a few questions/comments.

# 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.

# 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.

While you may be able to solve this particular issue by changing the encoding to utf-8, there is still the problem that the interface is in English, making it a bit intimidating for many non-English speakers.

I am not being negative, and I am 100% sure the intention was good. But it would have been better if people with knowledge in those languages were consulted before the implementation, to make sure that the forums are accessible enough for everyone regardless of the language they use. A little teamwork goes a long way. ;-)

Koki

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