{"id":217,"date":"2005-03-14T19:54:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist-neu\/2005\/03\/14\/the-tower-of-babylon\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T03:36:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T01:36:50","slug":"the-tower-of-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/2005\/03\/14\/the-tower-of-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tower of Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm\/paint\/auth\/bruegel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"398\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/archives\/babel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/netzstaub\/archives\/000506.html\">Netzstaub<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tim.geekheim.de\/2005\/03\/10\/language-issues\/\">The Lunatic Fringe<\/a> have recently been thinking about the same thing I was thinking about: multi-language support in weblogs. I&#8217;ve been blogging rarely, but when I did, I couldn&#8217;t really decide which language to choose. Now I basically decided to just stick to English as I could need some exercise (not that I wouldn&#8217;t need that for German, too&#8230;) and most of the German readers can read English good enough while most of the anglo-\/american people I know are not that savvy in foreign languages.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, there are reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/bl0rg.net\/\">bl0rg.net<\/a> should probably just switch to running something like <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/fredfred.net\/skriker\/index.php\/polyglot\">Polyglot<\/a>, which enables you to have parts of your blog entry in different languages and only display the fitting parts as the reader chooses. On the other hand, I&#8217;d like to keep each language completly seperate, that is writing a blog article in English and then having the option to translate it as a whole to German and presenting the reader the best-fitting version of the article. (Just how Apache does it with <a href=\"http:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs-2.0\/de\/mod\/mod_negotiation.html\">MultiViews<\/a>).<br \/>\nTime to write my own blog software&#8230; (with blackjack! and multi-language support!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netzstaub and The Lunatic Fringe have recently been thinking about the same thing I was thinking about: multi-language support in weblogs. I&#8217;ve been blogging rarely, but when I did, I couldn&#8217;t really decide which language to choose. Now I basically decided to just stick to English as I could need some exercise (not that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bl0rg.net\/neingeist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}