BSA® Language Best Practices - Review of English & Spanish Tools

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Non-BSA Tools and References

Contents:

• Language Tools (non-BSA
  • Dictionary
  • Style
  • Translators
  • More non-technical information
• Technical Information (non-BSA)
  • Language Characters
  • Fonts
  • Language Tags and Codes
• Link to top topic
• Disclaimer
• Scouting forums disclaimer
• Version

Language Tools (non-BSA)

Dictionary

• Merriam Webster® - an Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., company

  • About the Unabridged | Merriam-Webster Unabridged subscription
  • The Unabridged Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
  • Dictionary and Word Game Apps | Merriam-Webster
  • The Webster’s New World College Dictionary may be added to an “AP Stylebook Online” subscription available from “The Associated Press”

• Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy)

  • Diccionario de la lengua española (Dictionary of the Spanish language - in Spanish).

Style

• The Associated Press (AP)
  • AP Stylebook, 55th Edition, Published May 31, 2020. 619 p. - new book edition published annually, more frequent changes published in AP Stylebook Online, a subscription service with a pronunciation information and other services.
    • The Associated Press Stylebook (apstylebook.com)
      • AP Stylebook Online subscription.
    • El Manual de Estilo Online de la AP (2016) (manualdeestiloap.com)
• The University of Chicago and the Universidad de Deusto
  • The Chicago Manual of Style Online
  • Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto, Primera edición adaptada al español de la 16ª edición del Manual de estilo de Chicago, Edited by Javier Torres Ripa, ISBN: 9788415759140, Published February 2014, 956 p. Find this book (worldcat.org) in a library
    • Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto - Guía breve para citas y referencias bibliográficas, © Universidad de Deusto, Revista Deusto, núm. 126. ISSN: 1886-2071, 12 p. - This is a short guide with citation examples

Translators

MY OPINION: Online translators generate different translations and vary in output quality. A human translator is needed to correct errors.

Scouting forums translator interface

Discourse Translator

Found by @Stephen_Hornak

• Discourse Translator - Discourse forums software plug-in to “Integrate with Google Translate or Microsoft Translator and give your users the ability to translate a post in Discourse automatically with the click of a button.”
  • MY OPINION: May be additional cost for BSA. Appears to require API and additional storage. Further research required.

Google Translate - user tool

• Google Translate Help, https://support.google.com/translate/?hl=en#topic=7011755
• Webpage (free service): https://translate.google.com/

Microsoft Translator

• Microsoft Translator - mobile app
• Word - Microsoft Translator for Business
  • “Microsoft Office 365 subscribers can translate Word documents into any of our supported languages using Word Translator”
• Translate text into a different language (microsoft.com) - Microsoft Office support
• Cognitive Services—APIs for AI Solutions | Microsoft Azure

More non-technical information

• US Government - federal information that may be useful to Scouting

  • Bilingual Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Style Guides | digital.gov

• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: - parts missing citations

  • Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

Technical Information (non-BSA)

Language Characters

• Unicode® Consortium
  • FAQ - Basic Questions (about Unicode)
  • FAQ - Unicode and ISO 10646
  • FAQ - Security Issues (unicode.org)
  • More: Site Map (unicode.org)

HTML character entries for Scouting forums posts

• Spanish Language Diacritics and HTML Code (digital.gov)

Fonts

• For BSA font standards see BSA style guides.
  • “Printed Material: Times New Roman/Bold/Italic
    Online Messages: Arial/Bold/Italic” per 2012 Brand Identity Guide. There is a later expanded list.
• MY COMMENT: There are recommended fonts and spacing for improving access by visually impaired individuals. See the “World Wide Web Consortium - Accessibility” for more information.

Language Tags and Codes

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • Language on the Web (W3C)
    • Choosing a language tag | W3C
    • Language on the Web | Getting started | W3C - for content authors and webmaster
    • Language tags in HTML and XML | W3C
  • Note: W3C HTML was superseded by the HTML Living Standard (whatwg.org) in May 2019.
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) - Technical information for website programmers:
  • IANA - Protocol Registries
    • IANA - Language Subtag Registry - large complex data file
• Request for Comments (RFC)
  • What are RFCs? Request for Comments (RFC) | WikipediA
  • Best current practices and standards
    • BCP 18 - IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages
    • BCP 47 - Language Tags
      • RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages
        • RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages, Appendix. A, - examples
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
  • Some pages are missing citations
  • List of ISO 639-1 codes - Wikipedia
  • Template:Lang - Rationale - Wikipedia

Link to top topic

• Diversity, Equity and Language - Research & Tools

Disclaimer

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Scouting forums disclaimer

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Version

Created 2021-09-18. Version 2021-11-28-A DRAFT