Localized challenge text

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Amit

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May 27, 2009, 1:32:43 AM5/27/09

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Hello Support Team,
I am working on a European localization project. I am able to
customize the labels appearing on the reCaptcha widget. But I want
reCaptcha should present language specific challenge text to the user.
Currently reCaptcha supports 7-8 languages, but only the labels
displayed in the widget are localized. The challenge text still
appears in English. I had also referred the post 'custom challenge
words', but it is too old and the support team had replied that they
will keep this as future enhancement. I want to know is it possible
now or not.

reCAPTCHA Support

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May 27, 2009, 2:28:13 AM5/27/09

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Hi,

This is something that we're planning, but it's a fairly involved task. We've done measurements of the pass rates in various non-English speaking countries vs the ones in the US and have found that there's only a very small difference. Using English CAPTCHAs still gives a higher pass rate than random CAPTCHAs because English words follow basic phonetic rules that are common across all Latin based languages.

- Ben