Czech

Czech translation: Česky

10:23 Sep 5, 2004

English to Czech translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics

English term or phrase: Czech

Please clarify which one of the 2 versions is the better one, to describe the Czech language, in Czech.

1. Četina
or
2. Česky

It is the language name that is supposed to appear on an multilingual UG.

Example:
English, Deutsch, ????Četina/Česky????, Polski, Suomi, Magyar, etc.

(all written in the respective language, not in English, to lead the reader of Czech, to open the book for Czech, at the right place)

Please also indicate (in English please) if both are correct, which one is to be preferred and why!
Please also indicate if Czech special characters are the right ones, if some are missing (which one), if the browser setting is Windows Central European.

Please indicate an answer for Czech consisting of one word only, not the translation of Czech language (2 words).

Thank you!

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Local time: 22:01

Czech translation:Česky

Explanation:
Both versions are correct. "Četina" means "Czech (language)", "česky" means "in Czech (language)". In your case, I would prefer "Česky" because you want to indicate that the UG is also in Czech.

The Czech special characters are correct.

Selected response from:

Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 21:01

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Česky

Hynek Palatin

česky

Milos Prudek

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peer agreement (net): +5

czech

Česky

Hynek Palatin
Czech Republic
Local time: 21:01
Native speaker of: Czech

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Thank you to both of you. Unfortunately the system only awards points to one person.

36 mins confidence:

czech česky

Explanation:
Hynek Palatin is correct. Answers to your other questions: Czech special characters are the right ones. None are missing. Your characters are correct for browser setting Windows Central Europe. You used Win-1250 encoding. I recommend that you quit using Win-1250, because it is deprecated and it does NOT support displaying more language encodings on a single page. That may not be a problem now, but it could be a problem later: with Win-1250, you may not be able to display signs for US Dollar, British pound, nor French, Swedish or Arabic alphabet on a single page. You may need to display a French name on a Czech page - with Win-1250 you can't display even apostrophe sometimes... I advise using Unicode for the whole site.

Milos Prudek
Czech Republic
Local time: 21:01
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Czech,

English

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