From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 16 5:14:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.kt.rim.or.jp (mail.kt.rim.or.jp [202.247.130.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B75115407 for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 05:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp) Received: from moon.sky.rim.or.jp (ppp351.kt.rim.or.jp [202.247.140.51]) by mail.kt.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.6W-RIMNET-98-06-09) with ESMTP id VAA03227; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:14:22 +0900 (JST) Received: from sky.rim.or.jp (earth.sky.rim.or.jp [192.168.1.2]) by moon.sky.rim.or.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl4/moon-1.0) with ESMTP id VAA21983; Sun, 16 May 1999 21:14:13 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:13:20 +0900 From: Jun Kuriyama X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [ja] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, hanai@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization References: <19990514204302.B43389@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515222516E.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp> <19990515174717.A656@nagual.pp.ru> <19990516000424.48809@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990516121203.C62097@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org # I deleted someone who is supposed to read freebsd-doc list from Cc: Nik Clayton wrote: > People seem to be agreeing that . is the way to go, and > I'm happy to follow that, particularly based on the contents of > /usr/share/locale. Of course, when we specify some localized environment, is not enough, . is better thing. But Japanese encodings such as EUC-JP, Shift_JIS and JIS are easily machine-convertable. I don't know of such thing about Chinese encodings. So we should not maintain three "contently same but different encoding" texts in CVS repository. It is waste of disk space and human resource. > However, does this assumption hold for all the other languages that we'll > be dealing with? What's prompted all this is that some of the Chinese > translators want to make documentation available in both EUC and BIG5 > encoding. I think so. I want to know what Chinese translators thinks. > If we can't collapse it then, for consistency, all the other directory > names will need to include the country selector as well. Agreed. (But I don't like such deep directory hierarchy which you proposed :-) -- Jun Kuriyama // kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp // kuriyama@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message