Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

祝你生日快樂，
祝你生日快樂。
祝你生日快樂, 四是為,
祝你生日快樂!

I love Google Translate.

Ha. Yeah. Me too. Except I didn't use a translator to type that. I would type more Chinese for you, but I'm on the desktop, which doesn't have the character set installed.

I love Japanese and the fact that it uses the same characters as Chinese and I didn't have to use Google Translate. (Boom! Roasted.)

Happy Birthday!

Sky Bones wrote:I love Japanese and the fact that it uses the same characters as Chinese and I didn't have to use Google Translate. (Boom! Roasted.)

Happy Birthday!

Except I didn't use Google Translate to type those. 'Cuz I'm awesome. Maybe when I'm in Taiwan, I'll write you letters in Chinese and you can read them in Japanese. [ =

All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

vorpal blade wrote:All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

You must not have Chinese character sets installed properly. What OS are you using?

vorpal blade wrote:All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

mmmm, time to upgrade to a flat screen. Might be able to get row of boxes to fit, tops. Even then they'd have to be small boxes, or well balanced.

Thanks, Gio! And thanks, Sky Bones. I appreciate the thoughtfulness.

For the record, I am not such a huge fan of Google Translate.

Do you prefer another option or something? Or do you just not like GT in general?

It's annoying.

I'm using Windows XP.

The boxes are really, really small, Tao, and fit nicely on my flat panel screen.

Since I can't read Chinese I really don't need the character set. It did make me wonder, when I first saw this post, what sort of language uses identical looking boxes. A form of the C programming language, perhaps? http://boxc.sourceforge.net/language.html

C is for wrote:It's annoying.

Well, it certainly doesn't translate things perfectly, but for those times when someone posts in a language you don't know, it's invaluable. (Or when someone has a chat status in their mission language, or when you want to verify that something in a language you can mostly read says what you think it says.)

This computer uses Windows XP, but I can now see the characters. So I used Google to translate it. Hey, it works!