The Alternate languages section of the Tutorials section contains a couple of tutorials in languages other than English. This is very much dependent on how much effort alternate language monks are prepared to devote to add material. So far, after an initial burst of activity, not much has come of it.

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Oh, indeed, I think this is a matter of organize the little spread efforts into something really BIG. This way, everybody will do a little bit of translation to his/her native tongue, and all the documentation and main articles of the Monastery will be translated on many languages.

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There are some non-English Tutorials in the monastery (Dutch, German, and Italian). I think it'd be nice to have more -- why don't you start by writing one in Portuguese? You could translate one of the existing ones or write something entirely new.

As to why: well, mainly because nobody's made the effort. So if you start, maybe you'll encourage others.

I think the major reason a translation effort has never really gotten started isn't that there isn't a place for them to orginize... it's because there aren't enough translators-to-be, esp for any given langauge.

Also, if you want to translate the site docs, you don't want a sepperate group. You want to be part of the sitedocclan.

(BTW, note that all content in the monestary is latin-1 (iso-8869-1), not Unicode. That makes it annoying to translate into Japanese, Russian, or anything else that uses a non-latin-based alphabet.)

grrr...you weren't kidding were you. Anyone with info on how make Japanese characters work, I would be happy for the info.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, I find myself in pain everyday" -me

You need to entitize all characters not within the latin-1 reptiore. I /belive/ this code will do it, assuming $_ is your text, stored as "proper" utf8, with perl's utf-8 flag set.

 my $ord;
 s/(.)/$ord=ord $1;
 if ($ord < 128) {
  $1;
 } else {
  "&#$1;";
 }
 /ge;
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I would be willing to translate some Tutorials into Japanese, but who would I send these to once I finished.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body, I find myself in pain everyday" -me

Welcome to the Unofficial Perl Monk Translation Order, fellow. (-:

AFAIK, I think you should post your translation in to the Tutorials node, so the Editors can publish it for us.

May the gods bless you and your effort.

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Just Another Perl Monk