Forum:Error in posting to Biostars?

Question

[vctrm67]

I'm trying to post a question to biostars but I'm getting this error message:

Language "cy" is not one of the supported languages ['en']!

Does anyone know what this means? I wasn't aware of any language restriction and my post is in English. I commented some code too, but I don't know what it wouldn't be allowed.

[Mensur Dlakic]

Are you sure your browser does not have Welsh language setting? Besides, it seems like you successfully posted this question, so maybe repeat the same steps and on the same computer.

[vctrm67]

I tried, and it did not work, so I posted this question in the same manner.

[Joe]

If you can post this, but not the other question, can you verify if it is some specific element of the other post which is causing the problem?

Are you copy-pasting some code or text which potentially has a special character (it may be invisible)?

[Michael]

Maybe, the content could be posted in "raw" format on pastebin or gist? Or on slack. That might help to debug the case.

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

There is a language detector algorithm at work that occasionally can misclassify posts that have lots of code (and relatively little English in them)

Happens mostly when the code is in R ... :-)

If you add another sentence should go away.

[Istvan Albert]

In this case Cy means Cypriot Greek