Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:40:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org>, hanai@astec.co.jp, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: SGML doc changes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960903212527.7948B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <305.841801390@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: [WRT mm upgrade] > > The last must be done regardless; the version currently in > > current has some catastrophic bugs, never mind beind 9 versions > > behind what is currently available. > > Can we bite this off as a separate task? I'm worried that we might be > gathering too many large scale TODOs and not enough short-term goals. Certainly. > > As for the handbook itself, you suggest putting the new stuff in > > jp_JP.EUC. It would follow that the english should then go in > > en_??.ISO_8859-1. The "foreign" directories have translated > > Sounds good to me! Okay, who claims english? AU, CA, GB, or US? :-> Also, this scheme assumes translations are chopped up at the file level. This may be the most managable, but its also possible to embed multiple translations in a single file. <![ % english [ This is the english translation ]]> <![ % french [ This is the french translation ]]> <![ % german [ This is german... ]]> This will come out the same in both versions The obvious advantage to this method is common text, most likely examples, need not be duplicated. It may potentially help keep variant languages intact. The obvious problem is combining different encodings. I gather if we restrict the non-japanese text to USASCII we should not run into conflicts with EUC-J. Thats fine for english and japanese, but would be a hassle for other european languages who would be better with the ISO 8859-x or KOI8 encodings. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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