Default language ;)

[Thomcat]

There is another problem - foreign characters and transliteration.

I only speak from Russian experience here, but not all browsers are set to show unicode charsets (meaning some Cantr players see non-alphabetic gibberish).

The alternative is transliteration, but there is no standard here that I know of. (Even though 'Vui' and 'Vwee' are the same, an English speaker is going to see them differently).

Finally, what language does your Cantrian speak? With so many english speaking characters showing up on the Russian island, for example, how do you role-play the difference? Fortunately (so far) all gestures have been in english (e.g. *he nods*), but imagine if the gestures were in Russian, Polish, etc?

*sigh*

[BarbaricAvatar]

Christ guys,speak english...This topic is on the english forum,and people who doesn't understand polish have to find this really annoying...

Not true! You could say things about my mother and i wouldn't have a clue! And it's interesting pasting it in Intertran to see if the site can actually get the translation correct (which 99 times out of 100 it can't).

[wichita]

There is another problem - foreign characters and transliteration.

I only speak from Russian experience here, but not all browsers are set to show unicode charsets (meaning some Cantr players see non-alphabetic gibberish).

The alternative is transliteration, but there is no standard here that I know of. (Even though 'Vui' and 'Vwee' are the same, an English speaker is going to see them differently).

Finally, what language does your Cantrian speak? With so many english speaking characters showing up on the Russian island, for example, how do you role-play the difference? Fortunately (so far) all gestures have been in english (e.g. *he nods*), but imagine if the gestures were in Russian, Polish, etc?

*sigh*

So a technical question that I have been wondering for a while...what character encodings is the Cantr site using for the Polish area? I think about 1 in 3 Polish characters are posting in gibberish characters on my screen. I have about every encoding enabled on my computer that I can, but haven't found the right one yet, apparently.

Oh, and I always try to gesture in the language my character is playing in. My English emote in English, Germans in German, etc. I hate it when people fall back to English.

-- wichita: xenophile extraordinaire trying to escape his native language

[Evelyn]

wynieść ten szampan i świętować!

(przy pomocy online tłumacz)

I don´t understand nothing....

[Evelyn]

Finally, what language does your Cantrian speak?

All my characters speak in Spanish!!!! Qué chévere!!!

[Okud]

wynieść ten szampan i świętować!

(przy pomocy online tłumacz)

I don´t understand nothing....

I understand a little bit, it's something like:
Bring out the champagne and celebrate
(with the help of an online tanslator)

[BarbaricAvatar]

wynieść ten szampan i świętować!

(przy pomocy online tłumacz)

I don´t understand nothing....

I understand a little bit, it's something like:
Bring out the champagne and celebrate
(with the help of an online tanslator)

My god! The translator got it right!

http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml

[Okud]

Oh, so that's why the noun was not declined. Ask a native speaker, don't base your conclusions on what I understand from the translation - I don't speak Polish.

[Thomcat]

Oh, and I always try to gesture in the language my character is playing in. My English emote in English, Germans in German, etc. I hate it when people fall back to English.

Not a bad idea, but... gestures are visual things. The eyes know no language.

Maybe we should totally swamp the programmmers and ask for "gesture buttons" - results in native language, of course.

Seriously, though, on the Russian island there are both english and russian speakers. Gestures in only one language don't make RP sense.

[Hellzon]

Gestures in only one language don't make RP sense.

It's been said twice now, so I have to ask. What exactly is the problem with using the one language that "all" of us (with few exceptions, I'd wager) know, for things that aren't language dependent in the game world anyway.
I mean, the Swedes and Turks share an island (that's common knowledge), and the emotes are done in English. Are you seriously saying that I should learn turkish to play there? (Or teach swedish to the Turks?)

/Hellzon - language non-elitist

[BarbaricAvatar]

Oh, so that's why the noun was not declined. Ask a native speaker, don't base your conclusions on what I understand from the translation - I don't speak Polish.

aww, then my post is meaningless