Well… We Europeans are generally very bad at reading and understanding Chinese, so it would be preferable to have dedicates servers for this language for players not comfortable using English.
As far as I know, China itself won’t allow any other language than Chinese for most games. Why would you expect European countries to be more tolerant in this matter then when the necessity for the language on EU isn’t really there in the first place? Doing China a favour for free isn’t exactly popular over here.
Anyways, there was a suggestion made some years ago that might help circumvent the server setting:
Yeah, there are a lot of exchange students and workers from china in europe, who may play wow. A chinese client would be good for them. Anyway, it’d be nice, if blizzard incorporated deepL in the UI, which translates every message into your own language. This also helps us communicating with players speaking russian/chinese/spanish/etc. It’s kind of a nobrainer, and insanely easy to implement
The Australian one not the Austrian one. Australia is country down south of the equator looks like a island but they say continent and Austria is in Europe.
There’s a thing in US apparently where they think Austria/Australia are the same thing. Just like how they raised the Swiss flag for celebrating something Spotify related - you know, the SWEDISH Company?
Well, I’m in a bit of a pickle here. Fortunately I am not aware of any pandas who speak Zulu so I should be alright.
Another nice thing about Pandaren is when you have a whole slew of people yelling at you for having quit feral because feral was totally my thing, I can just tell them that the Chinese word for panda is 大熊貓 - literally giant bear cat. Solves that problem!
Which isn’t African, it’s actually a modified form of Dutch.
Anyway, as for writing Chinese in WoW on EU servers it works fine. Just enable the IME in Windows and type away. It’s even got this beautiful integration over the chat box making the whole IME system look like a part is the UI instead of looking like Windows. It’s very nice.
EDIT: Swahili is an African language though. It and Zulu are the languages that inspired a lot of The Lion King, by the way, which is why it is the only Disney movie to ever be translated into Zulu. I don’t know why I’m mentioning this but it’s fun. Allows you to hear a bit of this language that isn’t very common in the internet.
The language is famous for the clicking sounds which can be heard in the intro, though most people don’t realise thinking it’s probably part of the sound effects.