With the release of multilingual support, some bugs were also fixed yesterday:

• The Rich Text Editor has been modified to have a larger default width.
• Distinct Hosts in Site Stats now accurate. As we noted previously, this was being overstated due to a miscalculation. This has been fixed but will only affect stats from 01/10/2006 forward.
• XML Requests and HTML Requests in Site Stats are more accurate. Secure XML feeds and XML feeds with querystrings are now counted. HTML requests now log the type of file (instead of using the extension) to accurately identify all HTML requests. As a result, you will likely see your XML requests increase (due to now accounting .xml?secure, for example) and HTML requests going down, (due to now not misrepresenting such things as images with no extension as HTML)
• Rich Text Editor line height fixed. Line spacing now adjusts with text size.
• The Timezone in General Settings will now set the default Timezone in the Post Article page.

Yesterday, Blogware (the software that powers Blogzerk) finished updating all the Blogware servers with multilingual support. As noted previously:

Blog owners will be able to specify the language for their blog as well as for the Publisher's Control Panel. Initially, the following languages and locales will be available:

• English - United States
• English - Canada
• English - United Kingdom
• Spanish - Castilian

Additional languages and locales will be added throughout 2006.

The spell checker will be also be updated. A language field will now appear in the spell checker dialog box allowing blog posters to select the language that should be used when spelling is checked. The default dictionary is based on the user's locale. Dictionaries are available in English (U.S.), English (U.K), English (Canadian), Spanish, Danish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Portuguese.

Additional Information
Now that this release is live, we have the following additional details.

Readers and Users
Authenticated users will see the Blog environment in the language they selected in the My Profile screen (as described above). Unauthenticated users will see the Blog environment in the language selected by the blog owner.

New Users who sign up for a Reader account will be able to set their own Language Preference in the New Reader Sign Up page. When Readers login to Blogware, the blog environment will be displayed in their selected language.

Browser Settings
Blogware character data will be encoded in UTF-8. Publishers must use a Web browser that supports UTF-8. Publisher who use an unsupported format will encounter the following error "The format that you are currently using is not supported. Please ensure your browser coding is set to UTF-8. For additional help, please contact your Retailer."

Components and Templates
Blog owners can create customized components and templates that will be presented in their language of choice. Blogware has provided a glossary for words that are translated (download a Spanish translation example with all glossary words). These translations can be accessed using the new 'gettext' function. Candidates for translation appear with the following formatting:

<%=gettext("candidate word")%>

The 'gettext' function can only be used to translate words contained in the glossary file. When a Language Preference is set to a language other than English (U.S.), Blogware will retrieve the translated candidate word from the glossary file.

Timezone Bug Fix
This release will also include a fix that ensures that the Time zone set in the Publisher's Control Panel, General Settings page will drive the default time zone set in the Article page.