Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:44:10 +0900 From: Motoyuki Konno <motoyuki@snipe.rim.or.jp> To: nik@iii.co.uk, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Move handbook to doc/en/handbook as part of DTD migration? (was Re: LINUXDOC_2_DOCBOOK_BP branch applied to doc/handbook) Message-ID: <199804010944.SAA03890@ron.snipe.rim.or.jp> In-Reply-To: Message from nik@iii.co.uk of <19980401092324.11179@iii.co.uk> References: <19980401092324.11179@iii.co.uk> <19980330183652.07840@iii.co.uk> <3520D677.7DF34125@opt.phys.waseda.ac.jp> <19980331155059.24295@iii.co.uk> <19980331170851.26859@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu>
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Hi,
nik@iii.co.uk wrote:
> I see your point. As far as I can tell, the Japanese translation has been
> done by translating the English Handbook, and there has been no new content
> added to the Japanese version (apologies in advance to the Japanese team
> if this is not the case, I've only skimmed the commit messages).
The difference between English and Japanese handbook are very few.
We added info of mirror site in Japan, description of Japanese
Documentation Project (translation team), guide of "how to get FreeBSD
info in Japanese", etc.
> I think it does make sense for there to be one 'canonical' version of the
> Handbook from which all other translations are derived. So far, that's
> the English version, and will probably continue to be, if for no other
> reason than that's the way things are at the moment.
I think the English version continues to be the standard, because
non-English --> non-English (ex: French --> Japanese) translation
will be very difficult. Many of FreeBSD users in Japan can read
documents in English, but most of them can not read French, Spanish,
etc.
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