Regarding machine translations, that may still be somewhat of an issue outside of European languages. Asian languages differ so radically from European languages that any machine translation between them is of poor quality. It may suffice, for those languages where translation is available, to understand the main topic, but the details are unreliable (some keywords can be totally mangled). Use of idioms will reduce translation quality considerably, and a skilled linguist could potentially manipulate the machine translation to obscure the actual intent of the message. True, great strides toward improvement have been made in recent years, but there are still many shortcomings and languages for which no machine translation is available--for several of which (Karen, Shan, etc.) I am already in process of coding utilities.

Regarding inclusion of non-Roman scripts in POD, there may be some encoding issues, especially for those unaccustomed to or unprepared for working with unicode fonts.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^2: Perl module documentation language conventions by Polyglot
in thread Perl module documentation language conventions by Polyglot

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