non-English forums

Though English is the lingua franca of the Internet, it is of course not the only language spoken. Virtually every lanaguage in the world can be found somewhere on the web, including fairly uncommon non-latin character languages such as Burmese. French Forums, Spanish Forum, Italain Forums, are all very easy to find. Of course, as the the character set for URLs is very limited, some of these languages have to be adapted to display on the Internet. There has been some push (especially in China) to changes this, but so far it has not happend. The argument against the change is that large portions of the web would be unavailable to people who cannot input text in that language. Only time will tell if this initative is successful.

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