Originally posted by Seytra
Well, I regard national language sections as being totally redundant. This is because english has been picked as the world language (and rightfully so since most of the world\'s population speak it). So why should I bother searching in my native language, as there is bound to be far less information available in it? Also, I simply hate to find just what I need to know but it\'s in some other language, like greek or gaelic. It at best leads to the same stuff being posted several times, clogging the internet and also defeating the purpose of universally accessible information. Therefore I post my stuff in english. I\'ll reach far more ppl. with it using the same effort.
I know, it\'s tough for everyone besides english speakers, but OTOH, everybody is supposed to speak english anywy, so it\'s not that much to ask, is it? Think of it as visiting another country: you aren\'t going to get anywhere without a means of conversing in the local language or english.
IMO, it mostly is a matter of misunderstood national pride to refuse to speak english, which is, also IMO, utterly stupid.
Getting a little fascist here, aren\'t we? FYI about twice as many people speak Chinese as those that speak English(yes, I do have the Oxford World Atlas in front me, I was kind of curious
. And then we have Spanish, various Slavic ones, all of which aren\'t so far behind. Riiiight, let\'s ignore the other 30-40% because we\'re the 60-70% majority. Now, where have I heard that before?
As far as PS itself, since it went this way: I don\'t think it would have been so hard to add gettext support or something like that to it, but I suspect it wasn\'t even discussed much. Making separate \"patches\" for each language is broken by its nature.
When it comes down to it, it\'s not the admins or moderators that are being lazy, it\'s the people who post in their native language and expect us to figure out what they\'re saying. If they are capable of understanding the forum and the website and things written in game, then they should do us the courtesy of speaking to us in English. It really can\'t be that hard to do.
Perhaps they were also trying to get an answer in their own language? And they have no idea where to post it otherwise? If you so dislike foreign languages, why\'d you not at least make sure everybody(including newcomers) has a chance to find that out before posting(ie make it one of the rules and post it on the website)?
When it comes down to it, it\'s not the admins or moderators that are being lazy, it\'s the people who post in their native language and expect us to figure out what they\'re saying. If they are capable of understanding the forum and the website and things written in game, then they should do us the courtesy of speaking to us in English. It really can\'t be that hard to do.
Seriously, just go and try to learn a foreign language, prefferably one that has a radically different writing system, then talk(no offence intended, but it doesn\'t look like you\'ve done so)... Btw, I thought this is a community forum? Why do you want to answer every question yourself?
P.S. This attitude is absolutely horrible, and if it actually is shared by developers, I don\'t see it getting PS anything other than a fork. I\'m not sure about win32 developers, but most of the other opensource projects I\'m aware of take as many steps as possible to being portable and having i18n/l10n capability from the beginning - if there\'s, say, one person having trouble compiling on FreeBSD, he/she doesn\'t usually get \"Get lost, all of us are using Linux/win32 to run it\"... acknowledge your bugs, at least, maybe someone will be around to fix them...
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) 2. XFree86(okay, the scale is kind of different, but you get the idea) 3. AFAIK modern \"Democracy\" means a little more than its literal meaning. Maybe I\'m wrong.
although I guess something could be done with the code that\'s in CVS already)
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