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multilingus - need some translation help

         

Eric_Jarvis

11:53 am on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'm rebuilding our language switching system...ideally I need to add the phrase "Other languages" in a number of languages...those I don't yet have are:

Hungarian
German
Simplified Chinese (Unicode numerical if poss)
Japanese (as above but also shift_jis eventually)
Danish
Portuguese
Russian

can anyone add any of these?

PsychoTekk

12:09 pm on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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german: "andere Sprachen"

heini

12:44 pm on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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>andere Sprachen

just to add: you'd probably want to start with a capital letter. If the phrase should be embedded, like in: "this page/site in other languages" it would be "...in anderen Sprachen"
Make sure to let a native speaker look over it.

sorry for being so pedantic, Psycho ;)

Eric_Jarvis

1:19 pm on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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thanks guys

I'm doing a single separate phrase in a menu

Rumbas

1:24 pm on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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>Danish

"Andre sprog"

PsychoTekk

1:51 pm on Jun 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

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sorry for being so pedantic, Psycho

no problem, you are right, i just thought of a standalone link :)

bill

8:01 am on Jun 29, 2002 (gmt 0)

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In Japanese:
‘¼Œ¾Œê

bartek

9:53 am on Jun 29, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Russian:
here is the unicode:
Другие языки

Eric_Jarvis

11:13 am on Jul 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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thanks...two more down...I couldn't get at the Japanese Bill...didn't come out on any browser I've got here and normally I can pick up most CJK stuff...any chance of the Unicode numericals...once I have those I can convert to any encoding going

just Hungarian, Portuguese and Simplified Chinese to go

bill

2:16 pm on Jul 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I couldn't get at the Japanese Bill...didn't come out on any browser I've got here and normally I can pick up most CJK stuff
Comes out fine on IE6, Moz 1, or Opera 6 for me...;) Try manually setting the encoding of this page to Shift_JIS and you should be able to see it.

...any chance of the Unicode numericals...
I know sites where I can get Japanese out of Unicode, but I don't recall doing it the other way around...sorry it's late

Eric_Jarvis

2:49 pm on Jul 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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thanks Bill...that did the trick...have now got it

bill

1:20 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Chinese (Simplified):
其他语言

Use Unicode UTF-8 encoding on this page to see the characters.

Eric_Jarvis

4:40 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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incidentally bill...the site where you can turn CJK into Unicode numericals is...wait for it...Google

just do a search on the characters looking for pages in the relevant language and Google will transform the text in the search bar into the numericals...I found it by chance after hours of tearing my hair out wondering why so many people found it necessary to come up with different ways of doing something I could do by simply inputting the numericals into any html document, whilst completely ignoring the fact that it is damn difficult to work the other way around

bill

2:08 am on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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incidentally bill...the site where you can turn CJK into Unicode numericals is...wait for it...Google
Well you learn something new every day ;) I always found that feature annoying when I wanted to revise my search terms...It only happens from Google.com as far as I've seen. I don't know about you, but I can't read Unicode code quite yet. For this reason I tend to use local Googles where this Unicode massacre doesn't happen when searching for CJK terms.

Eric_Jarvis

11:24 am on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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bill...I can't read Chinese, Japanese, or Arabic either...I find it is easiest to do the Unicode pages with the numericals since they render more reliably with modern browsers

which reminds me...I need to find time to get the shift_jis, GB2312 and Big 5 versions of the site up