Should someone open a language-specific language server and use the same community name, for example, open source community on thai-language-lemmy.xyz?

Should I create a community with a language on community name, for example, Thai Open Source?

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
    11·
    3 years ago

    I would recommend that if you are going to create a community dedicated to a Thai audience you create the name in the Thai language, rather than in English, though. For example Open Source in Spanish would be Código Abierto, and so on.

    • vi21@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I failed to create a community named การเขียนโปรแกรมภาษารัสท์ or ภาษารัสท์. Maybe the validator doesn’t allow this. 🤔

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        We were talking about this in the Matrix room, to allow the use of non English characters as the name value, it’s not yet there, but maybe you could use a romanization of that as the name and use “การเขียนโปรแกรมภาษารัสท์” as the display name while it gets done?

          • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
            2·
            3 years ago

            We were discussing the idea of allowing non English characters so that if someone decided to create a language specific instance they could use their native characters in their communities, stepping away of how anglocentric the internet is.

            • marmulak@lemmy.ml
              2·
              3 years ago

              Yeah it’s a tough call. The usefulness of it is obvious, but also in many cases it is so difficult to perform input on certain language even for those who regularly speak and use them. On platforms like Lemmy I will often type in the address manually, like “lemmy.ml/c/coffee” and if I had to instead type “lemmy.ml/c/قهوه” it would be a pain in the ass. I could just have Romanized قهوه as “qahve” and everything would be fine.

              So if you’re willing to accept Lemmy being a bit more of a complicated mess then it’s a fine innovation. Many languages would benefit from allowing Unicode characters. And then maybe we can have communities named with emoji…

              • vi21@lemmy.mlOP
                2·
                3 years ago

                How about restricting emoji in a community name instead of allowing only Latin alphabet?

          • vi21@lemmy.mlOP
            1·
            3 years ago

            Thai-ization of Rust is รัสท์. Romanisation of รัสท์ is Rust.