Le problème est réel même si la solution n'est pas évidente. On peut toutefois regretter que la lutte contre ce genre de fraude finira par justifier, avec d'autres dérives, une "police du WWW" malheureusement bien éloignée de l'esprit dans lequel la toile a été créée. = Comment voyez-vous l'évolution vers un internet multilingue? Nous y sommes, à l'internet multilingue: reste à le consolider et à veiller à l'égalité des chances d'accès, ce qui prendra probablement un peu plus de temps. [EN] Marcel Grangier (Bern) #Head of the French Section of the Swiss Federal Government's Central Linguistic Services [Interview 14/01/1999 // Interview 25/01/2000] *Interview of January 14, 1999 (original interview in French) = How did using the Internet change your professional life? To work without the Internet is simply impossible now. Apart from all the tools used (e-mail, the electronic press, services for translators), the Internet is for us a vital and endless source of information in what I'd call the "non-structured sector" of the Web. For example, when the answer to a translation problem can't be found on websites presenting information in an organized way, in most cases search engines allow us to find the missing link somewhere on the network. = How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web? We can see multilingualism on the Internet as a happy and irreversible inevitability. So we have to laugh at the doomsayers who only complain about the supremacy of English. Such supremacy isn't wrong in itself, because it's mainly based on statistics (more PCs per inhabitant, more people speaking English, etc.). The answer isn't to "fight English," much less whine about it, but to build more sites in other languages. As a translation service, we also recommend that websites be multilingual. = How do you see the future? The increasing number of languages on the Internet is inevitable and can only boost multicultural exchanges. For this to happen in the best possible circumstances, we still need to develop tools to improve compatibility. Fully coping with accents and other characters is only one example of what can be done. *Interview of January 25, 2000 (original interview in French) = Can you tell us about your website? Our website was first conceived as an Intranet service for translators in Switzerland, who often deal with the same kind of material as the federal government's translators. Some parts of it are useful to any translators, wherever they are. The electronic dictionaries (Dictionnaires électroniques) are only one section of the website. Other sections deal with administration, law, the French language and general information. The site also hosts the pages of the Conference of Translation Services of European States (COTSOES). = What exactly is your professional activity?