CakeMail, now in Russian!
By Duncan Moore on October 24th, 2007
The multilingual aspect of CakeMail is something that we’re particularly excited about. With the help of our team members in Eastern Europe, we’ve produced a localization of the CakeMail interface in Russian (beta translation). We wanted to showcase CakeMail’s ability to handle non-Latin characters, and you have to agree that it’s pretty cool to see the interface in Cyrillic:
(Click the image to see more detail on our Flickr space.)
So, other than demonstrating CakeMail’s ability to handle non-Latin characters, why Russian? For starters, it’s one of the six official languages of the United Nations and is spoken by some 250 million people worldwide. Then there’s the fact that Russia’s economic and cultural influence is growing, with an annual growth rate of nearly 7% that earns it a place among the world’s top four emerging economies. (And hey, maybe it will be an excuse to drink vodka at some point…)
So far, CakeMail is available in Quebec French, American English, and Russian, with additional versions in the works, including French (France), Canadian English, Latin American Spanish, Greek and Romanian. We’re keen to hear from people who would like to open up new niche markets by translating the interface into additional languages or dialects. If you meet that description, please get in touch!
What does all this multilingual richness in CakeMail mean? Ultimately, we believe it could help facilitate economic opportunity and cultural diversity around the world. With an email newsletter platform that can accommodate any language, organizations both large and small can more easily reap the benefits of one of the most cost-effective and timely means of communication in the digital age. Which means more conversations in a greater diversity of voices. And that’s pretty sweet.
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