Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:35:34 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, hanai@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization Message-ID: <19990519213533.C60921@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp>; from Jun Kuriyama on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM %2B0900 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> <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp>
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On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> Of course, when we specify some localized environment, <lang> is not
> enough, <lang>.<encoding> 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.
Agreed, for languages that can be machine converted from one format
to the other. It would be up to the individual translation teams to
pick an encoding they're happiest working in, and using that.
N
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