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Date:      Sat, 15 May 1999 04:53:36 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        The FreeBSD Russian Team Documentation Project <ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk
Subject:   Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization
Message-ID:  <19990515045334.A89897@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <19990514204302.B43389@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:43:02PM %2B0100
References:  <auto-1360063@cgp.dol.ru> <19990514184047.A42402@nagual.pp.ru> <19990514204302.B43389@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> First, what do the _JP, _BN, and _TW signify?  Could they be dropped from
> the name?  I realise that the locale/ directory they allow you to 
> differentiate between "Chinese (China)" and "Chinese (Taiwan)".  But is
> that distinction useful for the documentation?

<language>_<country>.<code_table>
I.e. American English can use different phrases than British English.
I don't know is it really affects docs for particular countries.

> Second, we used to have a doc/ja_JP.EUC/ directory, and it was removed in 
> favour of a straight doc/ja/ directory.  Why?  It looks like this has been 
> gone over at least once before in the past.  I want to be sure I'm not 
> repeating past mistakes.

I mean only one special case where the docs are accessed online by some
program with language autoselection depending on current locale settings. 
Possible variants are "man" and "info" f.e.
For all other cases (WWW browsing and such) structure you suggest are
applicable.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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