Hello!

Here, I am building a blog web site for myself using Drupal. When it comes to choosing a CMS (Content Management System), there are many of them and choosing the right one is crutial for the site's success. The reasons why I chose Drupal are:

• Drupal is free Open Source software.
• Established history of development.
• The development community is very active.
• Internationalization capability.
• Availability of many modules that extends Drupal's core capability

Japanese support

Overall, Japanese and other Asian languages are well supported by Drupal.
There are Japanese translation modules from Drupal Japan , the official Drupal site for Japanese. The core modules get all translated. There are also some key modules translated for Japanese, such as Image , Pathauto , and Token .
Unfortunately, there are areas that Drupal's Japanese and Asian language support is somewhat limited. One example is the Search capability. Search assumes that the word is separated by a space, which is not the case for Asian languages. Also the calculation of character count is based on single-byte character sets (SBCS), so it is often miscalculated for multi-byte character sets (MBCS) such as Japanese.
Nonetheless, Drupal is a great CMS software. I truly thank Drupal developers.

What is this blog for

This blog itself is a testbed for me. The goal is to create a website with multi-language contents (English and Japanese).
The things I write will be just various things (in Japanese, "Moromoro") about Drupal, Windows, and other software. Thus the title "Moromoro Diary".

So, hopefully, I will be writing something interesting. Stay tuned...

If you happen to find any error in my contents, whether it's grammatical, spelling, or idiomatic usage, please let me know!