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Drupal have chinese simplified interface? is there any language packages??? ^^

isit possible to intergrate phpbb forum into drupal blog database?

or should i just stick on the drupal bbs module?

any big brothers here...please advice....
TQ ^^'''

I recently bought a new domain name that I will use as my main domain. So with the new name, I decided to try a new cms. (My current site is at www.landofmidnight.com and has a *nuke as the backend. Imagine that, a *nuke user switching! Betchya never heard that before!)

I've already installed Drupal and played around with it. The two words that come to mind when I think of Drupal are Nice and Complicated. Some of the jargon used is, shall we say, different from other systems. But complicated just means there is more of a learning curve, and that's something that just takes time to master.

So here I am, writing this for two reasons: 1) To see if Drupal is really what I need, and 2) to get clear in my mind what I want to do. So here goes....

Misguided Thoughts is my personal site. I'll be the only one creating content (aside from forums.) No other user gets blogs, article rights, submission rights, or hampster porn. I'll be doing the content. So, in other words, it's all about me.

The front page would be my journal/blog that others can comment on. (Like what I have now, but with comments) Being a(n aspiring) writer, I want to have sections (taxonomies?) for these "things": Reviews I write and Computer articles. I also want to have sections devoted to titles. So if I write a BooBoo the Killer Panda series, I can have a page dedicated to that. (It's my idea, don't steal it... I may use it ;0) I think I can do that by using pages or book. And I would have to redo the navigation to have each title listed. Or I can list each title, and on a master page, say mysite/booboo have links to other BooBoo pages... right?

How well does image.module handle large amount of photos? (50k? 100k? 500k?) Does anybody have any experience using image.module with a lot of pictures?

I downloaded http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-4.5.0.tar.gz many times, from windows and linux, with many download manager o directly from browser or with wget, unpacked with winzip & winrar in windows, tar xvzf and ark in linux, but if i open EVERY php or inc file, with different editors in win & linux, it has ALWAYS a blank line at the end, after the final ?> php tag, where blanks should not be... (i thought that previuosly was winzip to introduce them, but now i'm in linux!).

I want to create a site very similar to slashdot (not in terms of content, but in basically every other way). I don't want to use slash/slashcode for various reasons, the main ones being that slash seems like a bit of a spaghetti-code hack and I really don't enjoy working with Perl. Could I use Drupal?