Why is there no Chinese section in the forum?

[yhy]

Why is there no Chinese section in the forum?

[ginoo]

I think it's not a bad idea to open a Chinese section (I'm Italian), it could increase the number of users of Lazzarus, at least I think so.

[Zoran]

I'm not sure if it is a good idea, as a separate Lazarus/FPC forum in Chinese already exists.

For example, we don't have a forum section in German here, because there is a very active Lazarus forum in German which is not hosted here, so having a German language section in this forum would only divide German speaking community.

On the other hand, Russian language has its own section here, although they have another forum as well.
I doubt that it was a good choice to create more than one forum in one language.

[n7800]

IMHO, there's no point in language boards if no one answers questions there. I see low activity there, and even simple questions aren't answered.

Sometimes even English-speaking users use translator to try to answer there. But then why shouldn't the questioners themselves do it, with the opportunity to get answers from a broad and active English-speaking community? In many browsers, translators even automatically translate pages; it's just difficult to write messages.

But if someone doesn't want to use a translator, they'd be better off actually going to a forum in their language, which will definitely be more active. They might even be able to find the answer to their question right away using the search.

[n7800]

By the way, I found an interesting page on the language board.

If I follow the instructions, I'll see that there's also an Arabic board. It's strange that I can see the other boards right away, but for this one, I need to join a "group"...

[marcov]

Same for Dutch (www.nldelphi.com). One would expect the Chinese language area to be large enough to have its own dedicated board :-)

[PeterHu]

Per my experience in other language forum,localization language sub-board doesn't help too much.The main reason is related to the translation before reply from other language user.When writing a help post in English,there could be more people try to answer,but when in a localized language,one may just simply skip the post.

Speaking the activeness of a language forum,I would like to show my respect to lazarus and freepascal.So many people here would like to answer very simple questions,noticed many answers from very senior members. I have seen such scene only in C in stackoverflow.

[jamie]

Because C is for the old farts!
Who said that?

[Ten_Mile_Hike]

Because FPC is an Object Oriented Language Not an Object Oriental Language