Sending a textfile from sweden to another country

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

This is just for understanding
Assume I have a textfile coded in UTF-8 that contain the text "This is just
a text that contain welcome to me" and I want to send this text to
several other countries such as
Greek
Portugise
Japan
Spanish
French

Will this text be converted to respective language automatically ?

//Tony

 

[Anders Eriksson]

Hello!

This is just for understanding
Assume I have a textfile coded in UTF-8 that contain the text "This is
just a text that contain welcome to me" and I want to send this text to
several other countries such as
Greek
Portugise
Japan
Spanish
French

Will this text be converted to respective language automatically ?

//Tony

Hello Tony,

Short answer: No!

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sorry, couldn't help it ;-)

If the service you are using for sending the textfile doesn't include an
automatic translation it will not be translated. If you are doing this
yourself you could use Bing/Google Translate to do this, but be aware
that the translation is rather bad. Try to translate Japanese to Swedish
and you will see...

About UTF-8 Please read: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer
Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No
Excuses!)
by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

// Anders

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

This is just for understanding
Assume I have a textfile coded in UTF-8 that contain the text "This is
just a text that contain welcome to me" and I want to send this text to
several other countries such as
Greek
Portugise
Japan
Spanish
French

Will this text be converted to respective language automatically ?

Of course not.

UTF-8 and Unicode is about characters not words in western languages
and the whole point (as compared to earlier approaches) is that some
given bytes means the same characters in all languages.

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Short answer: No!

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Sorry, couldn't help it ;-)

If the service you are using for sending the textfile doesn't include an
automatic translation it will not be translated. If you are doing this
yourself you could use Bing/Google Translate to do this, but be aware
that the translation is rather bad. Try to translate Japanese to Swedish
and you will see...

About UTF-8 Please read: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer
Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No
Excuses!)
by Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

It is rather funny.

And the main point is good.

But as a historic overview of character sets and encodings it is
not good.

Arne