Comments on: Google Translate Does Thai

By: TRT Becomes PRT

TRT Becomes PRT — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:17 +0000

[...] (BD: For basic translations from Thai into English use Google Translate) [...]

By: smitty

smitty — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:48:33 +0000

Was wondering when this would happen since a lot of their services are all in Thai now.

This is good stuff.

Seems to be working okay.

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=www.durianseed.com&sl=auto&tl=th

WordPress handles Thai quite well.

By: BangkokDan

BangkokDan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:59:59 +0000

Excellent, that’s good news. Hope I won’t screw up the site, may contact you Torben.

My “Encoding for pages and feeds” now is UTF-8.

So be it, guess I just have to delete the -8 …?

BangkokDan

By: The Ghost

The Ghost — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:04:32 +0000

WordPress DOES do Thai script. See the comments here:

http://www.tfs2m.com/main/2009/02/02/scary-hookers-the-scrub-22-33/#comments

I’m sure there are other thai sites running WP. If you can’t get it working, probably something else at play.

By: Google Translate now include Thai | brams.dk

Google Translate now include Thai | brams.dk — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:49:28 +0000

[...] is still a bit rough though. You can see some examples on translation difficulties here at absolutelybangkok.com and even my first test translation using “Good luck” in Thai (one of the few short [...]

By: Torben Brams

Torben Brams — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:02:51 +0000

Thanks for the update – that was a nice surprise again from Google.

Just wanted to let you know that WordPress indeed does support Thai. You need to configure the database settings for UTF and you are all set.

See live example in the header on my site.

Write me offline if you need help with this.

Cheers
Torben

By: Phuket Observer

Phuket Observer — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:54:29 +0000

Excellent. I intend to start translating country-Western Isaan ballads into English soon.