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Re: Manpages translation



On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:31:17PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:33:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:49:29PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:50:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > Looking at the sources is mostly something a translator would need to do
> > > > when translations are first being added to a package.
> > 
> > > Wrong, l10n and i18n are different issues.
> > 
> > Could you expand on that please?
> 
> You may read
>     info -n '(gettext) Concepts'
>     http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-intro.en.html

I suspect Mark meant "please explain why looking at the source is only
relevant for i18n and not l10n". Henrique has said this far better than
I can, though.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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