Questions tagged [languages]
For questions dealing with content in foreign languages.
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Did the policy on foreign languages in the HNQ change or is this a bug?
According to this eleven year old post the question below should not be on the HNQ:
an etwas (D) festhalten vs. sich an etwas (D) festhalten
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Please don't one-click send new users from non-English (international) sites to an English-only chat room
The combination of the chat link and the lobby experiment has resulted in the following: if you are on an international site, say Stack Overflow en español, and speak Spanish (as is required to use ...
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As of 2025, what’s the official policy on using machine translation to supplement answers?
Imagine someone on Politics.SE asks, "What policies were proposed by the Chinese government in their 2025 speech?" Suppose I find an official policy document in Mandarin that perfectly ...
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German localisation of policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English
The German localisation of https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request contains 2 paragraphs in Dutch and 1 heading in English:
First reported by @Bergi in this comment: Upcoming privacy updates: ...
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The correct use of chat rooms, for new users (improve visibility and description)
This publication is not related to the chat rooms created or derived from the comments on question and/or answer posts.
Maybe this question is bad for old users who already know how to use the ...
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Do it already, Stack Overflow in Ukrainian (uaSO)! [duplicate]
Do it already, uaSO!, it's already unrealistic for Ukrainian programmers to be in Stack Overflow in Russian.
As Ukrainian developers, we actively utilize the Russian-speaking Stack Overflow and ...
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SE is showing 2 messages about bookmark/save in Russian (На потом and Все закладки) [duplicate]
SE is showing 2 messages in Russian. Example from Money SE (grey boxes added for privacy):
Same issue without dark mode, on DS SE:
I'm located in the US, so there's no reason to localize to Russian.
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Why are my privileges returned to me in Russian? [duplicate]
I noticed I received a new privilege. However, this was the notification I got:
You've earned the "Vote down" privilege! Узнайте больше об этом в Справке.
Why is the message in Russian?
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Portuguese question in the Hot Network Questions
There is a filter to exclude non-English questions from the Hot Network Questions list. I'm not sure if the criteria for a question being English are still the same as in this eleven year old answer
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How can I suppress notifications from non-English sites? [duplicate]
I have a "lisp" filter and I regularly get notifications from non-English SE sites (Russian, Portuguese, etc.) about Lisp-related questions.
I do not want to limit my filter to specific ...
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Wrong language in recent achievements
The "Achievements" menu on Skeptics shows me Russian text near my achievements:
The Russian text is:
Узнайте больше об этом в Справке
Which means:
Learn more about it in Help.
I have ...
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Is it allowed to have non-English text in the "About" section of the user profile page?
Are profile pages (about section) required to be written in English?
For example, this Stack Overflow profile that I found is entirely in Italian.
Stack Overflow is an English-only site, and that ...
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Determine if a bug reported on a foreign language Stack Exchange site is already reported on Meta.SE
I created a post on Stack Overflow en Español and no one has given me an answer; it appears it is a bug that they cannot solve... In chat they suggested I come to Meta.SE and post it, and I came ...
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Does Cyrillic copy/pasted from a Wikipedia definition kill proper display of hyperlinks in comments, but not in posts?
I tried to quote Wikipedia in a comment:
For space-word-deficient folks like myself Zarya (Russian: Заря́, lit. 'Dawn'[b]), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "...
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What is the best way to contribute to bringing Stack Exchange (especially AI, but everything code) to other languages? [duplicate]
I'm active in AI governance and actually in a lecture recently Luisa Olaya was talking about the barriers to using AI in the developing world, and what a problem it was that there aren't tools to help ...