From a technical aspect, does the FT infrastructure support the various language fonts?

Example, some websites use "non-standard" fonts to represent the Thai language. Internet Explorer seems to always want to default to Angsana as the standard font type for Thai text. However, the website may have been encoded with another "non-standard' font. Thus, instead of readable Thai, I get some kind of gibberish.

Would the FT infrastructure support the various language fonts? How much of a change would that require? Is it even possible?

I know that both Hebrew and Chinese fonts can be seen on FT.

I agree with Kanebear's points as far as he goes.

There is a website google-able as "babelfish". IMHO we would actually increase participation if foreign language posting were freely allowed. If I read something in Spanish, I can mostly understand it without help. If I see something in another non-English language that is Babelfish-able, then it only takes me seconds to translate it.

Moondog or others have posted Chinese characters in the China Forum, for example, to teach us the difference between the Men's and the Women's bathrooms or to navigate Chinese train table. Pretty usefully, if one doesn't read Chinese.

I've seen some Spanish in the Argentine forums to explain Argentine cultural concepts.

As a compromise, maybe we can allow in the Country-specific forums, posts entirely in the native language of that country.

And Cajun in the New Orleans forum, if that applies, too

I have been asked not to post here in either Spanish or German. However, I think think this was just Martinis at 8 discrimination, as opposed to any TOS violations

M8