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Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: WordPress in Kazakh

Poor Kazakhstan. It’s going to take them a long time to live down the image of their country that was created in Borat. However, despite the damage inflicted by Borat, I recently saw a news item on how the Kazakh economy is growing at a steady pace. So it seems that they’ve survived Borat.

Perhaps it’s part of the country’s growth, but WordPress is now available in Kazakh. Apparently, there are serious WordPress groupies in Kazakh too (where aren’t there WP groupies?), and they have translated over 2000 words to make the platform accessible to Kazakh bloggers.

Such cultural learnings for benefit glorious nation!

And now, for your viewing pleasure (I couldn’t resist):

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Problems with WordPress 2.2

Of course there are problems. I should have followed my own rule of not fixing things that aren’t broken.

Here are the problems:

1. After an upgrade, funny symbols appear all across the posts. Generally they appear where apostrophes are in words (see my post titled “Aizatto’s Related Posts Plugin“? for a beautiful example”), or where there was a space at the end of a sentence. This is a minor, but annoying problem.
2. Hebrew doesn’t work!! I need to be able to write Hebrew posts within an English installation of WordPress (as opposed to the Hebrew mod created by Ran Yaniv Hartstein). This worked until I upgraded. At first I thought that the problem might be my server, so I tested a site that is installed on the server with an older version of WordPress - it worked fine. I tested sites on a bunch of different servers, and all of the sites that were running 2.2 didn’t work. I can type in Hebrew, but if a save or publish a post or page, all of the Hebrew turns into question marks! I tried changing the encoding, but that also didn’t work.

Needless to say, this is driving me mad. If anyone has any advice, please please let me know!

Posted in News & Views | Tags: languages, upgrades | 3 Comments »

WordPress Global Translator

Global Translator is a Wordpress Plugin from Nothing2Hide which is able to dynamically translate your blog in other languages by using the Google Translation Engine.

WordPress Global Translator>>

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