From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 19 13:46:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A12B14F42 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 13:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) id VAA70286; Wed, 19 May 1999 21:35:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:35:34 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jun Kuriyama Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrey A. Chernov" , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <373EB660.A6706EC5@sky.rim.or.jp>; from Jun Kuriyama on Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM +0900 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:13:20PM +0900, Jun Kuriyama wrote: > 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. 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 -- There's some milk in the fridge about to go off. . . and there it goes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message