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I added a simplified Chinese translation capability, and gave wofzau translation privileges for this page:

http://www.digitaldevildb.com/maintenance/locales/zh/

WordPress doesn't seem to have a "Complex" Chinese localization. That's not to say it could not be done, but it would have to be done from scratch. I don't care if articles are written in traditional Chinese, but then I don't know the first thing about how the two "modes" are employed online. I'd assume Simplified is an attempt to bridge different languages and dialects, but for all I know it could just be to make reading/writing easier. Likewise I've no idea whether or not the two may be mixed. What to do is up to the Chinese capable crew :rainbow:

PS: I'll try to churn out a flag icon as soon as someone wants to translate an article. In the meantime it's probably makes more sense to get most of the interface translated first. Speaking of which I still have not gotten around to making the entire interface translatable, but at least more than 70% is marked up / hacked together (shouldn't that be an oxmoron??)

Oh yeah, that link^ is not part of the public site proper. So I haven't busted my ass to make it backwards compatible with older browsers. So I recommend Firefox3, Google Chrome, and probably Safari. Anything else will probably be unusable :sweatdrop:

Also, if it isn't obvious... you don't have to commit one phrase at a time, nor do you need to "compile" each field you enter. That is you just need to compile/commit when you're finished. It's no big deal if you just translate one phrase (for a quick fix) ...but it does generate a number of fairly large files on the server every revision.

I cleaned a lot of crap out of the Chinese translation files... so now the task should appear much less intimidating :tongue:

Good thing I noticed it before any translation work was done, or the work would've been lost (sans crap) :frown:

Anyway, this page (http://www.digitaldevildb.com/maintenance/locales/zh/) should be much shorter now :smokin:

Sorry, also just realized one of the Chinese temporary files did not have write access privileges :doh:

It should work now (in case you tried before and it didn't)

While I was thinking about making the scrollbar for the double wide manga pages start on the right (for reading right to left) it occurred to me it should not be difficult to make the website read right to left for languages which do so...

That would be appropriate for Hebrew and Arabic I think, but I wonder if Chinese should as well? Basically it's traditional to read Chinese right to left I think but my guess is the Chinese internet tends to read left to right. So I'd like your's (and other's) opinion.


On the other hand, webkit browsers (eg. Safari and Google Chrome) seem to have a number of bugs with right to left browsing (which prevented me from using rtl mode with the manga gallery) so either way it would be an expiriment.

Most Chinese webpages these days read left to right so there shouldn't be a problem leaving as is I don't think