From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 22 07:00:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19392 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19384 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 07:00:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA10691; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:00:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:00:41 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Kazuo HORIKAWA cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, man-jp-core@jp.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal to put Japanese online manuals into freefall CVS repository In-Reply-To: <199801221157.UAA00594@isrdgw.isrd.hitachi.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Kazuo HORIKAWA wrote: > Is the proposal to import Japanese online manuals into CVS repository > (doc/ja_JP.EUC/man) acceptable? I would like to ask you this > question, because you are the Documentation Project Manager. I would like to resolve the ja versus ja_JP.EUC question first, but otherwise that sounds fine. The problem coming down the pipe with the full locale specification is cases where there may be numerous locales for any given language. Right now there are 4 de locales, 4 en locales, 4 fr locales, 2 it locales, and 2 nl locales that differ only in the country specification. While genuine language/dialect differences do exist in some cases, how likely is it that de_CH is going to produce a different set of translations that de_DE? Encoding may still be an issue, but how big of an issue? In the web/mail/news environment, documents can be self-identifying. Can a man program detect EUC versus SJIS input and convert on-the-fly to the active locale encoding if necessary? (Am I correct in believing that EUC -> SJIS -> EUC is a "lossless" conversion?) I have also been pondering the implications moving the english docs (and web pages) into an en subdirectory. In the web context, URLs without a language qualifier could be redirected to the language of the mirror's choice. -john