John Rudd wrote:
What do they think will happen when someone who doesn't know english
tries to send to a user of such a system that outputs english error
One possibility is, it could just spit out a url, with no other text,
and assume that the sender will understand
They can, but my *guess* is that lots of senders won't.
If they're not multi-lingual, and only speak english, then there wasn't
any point in the non-english speaker trying to contact them, was there? :-)
The fact that the mail system and it's supporting sites aren't
multilingual does not mean that the mail users aren't. A typical
national ISP for example might well have many users that are
fluent in a number of languages that the ISP's pages are not
available in.
But there's no necessity, in what's been
described so far, that the web page the URL leads to would be english only.
Of course there isn't. There is a very real possibility though.
For a mail service provider it could mean quite a lot of work to
first find out what languages all of their users might receive
(and be able to understand) mail in, and then to make sure that
they instructions available in all those languages.
Of course, a company could provide a system that is allready
translated to a huge number of languages, but then the price
would probably reflect that.
IAC, it is one of the problems one should be aware of when one
thinks about this kind of system.
Regards
/Jonas
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