Actually, when you set up an RSS import, you can specify the encoding of the feed. Great. Now, if I want to import an RSS feed in english (lang="en") in a french board (lang="fr"), I'm not able to specify that the imported posts will be in english and not in french. Can you add an option like that for a next release?

Um, that would require that IPB come with a translation program. To get a feed in english, you need to find a feed that has text in english.

IPB just imports the feed - it doesn't translate between languages (and never will).

I'm not talking about translating the content, I'm talking about being able to specify the language of the content (add something like <span lang="en">{content}</span> if I import an english feed for example).

Why the heck would you want to do that :blink:

I don't even understand what difference that would make or why it is even necessary :S

For accessibility purposes.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-why
http://www.openweb.eu.org/articles/specifier_langue/ (in french)

Ah, that totally slipped my mind. Thank you for the references. :D