From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 29 22:42:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F7D16A418; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [81.2.252.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D270913C4C4; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFF5A4A9DA; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:42:02 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id gjN7anl8hTDe; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:41:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-5063f539.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.245.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7AEA4A9CD; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:41:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <472661B0.6010903@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:41:52 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre References: <4721FFC5.9070505@FreeBSD.org> <20071027.003749.76175923.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071026175650.GA1074@gothic.blackend.org> <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47259CCB.2070303@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ru@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato , doc@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille Subject: Re: localized man pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:42:36 -0000 Alex Dupre escribió: > Marc Fonvieille ha scritto: >> What Linux people use on their various distributions? Last time I >> checked (well, it was in 99...) most of Linux distributions provided >> localized manual pages. > > IMHO the main problem with localized man pages is that they are > *always* out of date and incomplete. man pages tend to change often > and localized version lag behind. Users perception is that the > documentation is poor and they switch to english man pages (in the > best case). > Well, I think it might apply to all kind of docs. As I see, the Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Italian documentation set is also pretty outdated. Not speaking about those who don't even have the webpage translated. Some Linux distributions succeeded with keeping them up-to-date, so I'm more optimistic about this and I'm willing to help maintining them with Miklos, our new contributor. This is a just an opportunity, users can always return to use English ones if they are unsatisfied with the quality of the translated documents. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org