Re: [RFC] i18n and documentation
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:40:44AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> [Reply-To: d-i18n, Cc: d-doc from which this discussion comes from]
>
> Hello,
>
> the intro-i18n document explains what i18n does mean for programs,
> but it does not cover documentation. Having guidelines for
> documentation writers to help translators would be of great help,
> so let's gather some ideas.
>
> I will present here a translator's (and revierwer's) view. If we
> agree on what he needs to perform his job, we can deduce what features
> l10n tools should provide, and how docs should be written to help
> translators.
> Examples at bottom illustrate these points.
>
> A. Requested features
> ======================
>
...
> 3) Support for any encoding
> ------------------------
>
EBDIC, anyone? :-)
this need to be clarified - e.g., for Slovak, nobody needs to
support microsoft CP1250 codepage. But for Bulgarian, commonly used
linux encoding is Microsoft CP1251, even though KOI8-R or ISO-8859-5
would be expected.
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