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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:15:49 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        keramida@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Non-English articles?
Message-ID:  <20070918071549.GA909@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070917205303.GA1830@kobe.laptop>
References:  <20070916135621.GA14098@kobe.laptop> <20070917124643.GA1755@gothic.blackend.org> <20070917125452.GA3081@kobe.laptop> <20070917133653.GB1755@gothic.blackend.org> <20070917205303.GA1830@kobe.laptop>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:53:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-09-17 15:36, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:54:52PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>> This cannot be added to:
> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/lang-setup.html
> >>> ?
> >>
> >> It's kind of large-ish for a section, but I can try to convert it to a
> >> patch for the Handbook :)
> >>
> >> Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't thought of lang-setup.html until now :)
> >
> > Check if what you want to add is not already mentioned in
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html
> > (I think that page lacks of a XkbLayout example).
> >
> > Most of locale things are in that chapter, so the language specific
> > additions should be limited.
> 
> The tricky part is that someone coming from another 'world' (i.e. from
> the Windows side of the world) doesn't know _anything_ about "locales".
> 
> The main idea behind collecting all the localization options in an
> article was to be able to point the user to _one_ place, instead of 4-5
> different Handbook chapters :-/
>

Maybe it's time to reorganize that chapter.  Anyway, do what is more
appropriate.  I just wonder about the need to have a localization
chapter if the reader has to read another document to get the
information.

-- 
Marc



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