From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 28 12:31: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C67F537B8CA for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12w8lw-00088f-01; Sun, 28 May 2000 21:30:52 +0200 Received: (from naddy@localhost) by bigeye.mips.inka.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA36097 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 May 2000 20:43:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy) Received: from mail.inka.de (uucp@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with bsmtp id AAA65236 for naddy@mips.inka.de; Sun, 28 May 2000 00:31:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from grasshacker@linkfast.net) Received: from postal.linkfast.net (postal.linkfast.net [208.160.105.2]) by mail.inka.de with esmtp id 12voMf-00038x-00; Sat, 27 May 2000 23:43:26 +0200 Received: from leviathan (gh.ws.linkfast.net [208.160.105.41]) by postal.linkfast.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FF439B36 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 16:43:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001e01bfc824$960dfc20$2969a0d0@leviathan> From: "gh" To: "Christian Weisgerber" References: <008801bfc799$88cddde0$ed64aad0@leviathan> <392F6CAC.1988C2EA@mail.ptd.net> <20000527184152.G3471@welearn.com.au> <8gpbuh$1rba$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Subject: Re: Why encourage stupid people to use *BSD WAS:Re: IE forFreeBSDPetition Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:43:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Sue Blake wrote: > > > Yes, and I think that these old and very unofficial guidelines still apply: > > http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/slow/ready.html > > In your opinion, is it a part of the exercise that this document > is in English? > A truly thought-invoking proposition. As a native English-speaker, I failed even to consider the possibility. I certainly hope that FreeBSD has the ability to accomodate (more fitting word?) users of other languages; however, I believe that we definitely should have a ``standard language'' if you will, even if not official (Something like what we have here in the US: most people speak English, but English is not the or an official language of this country, one language for standard, system-based communication. In addition, we should provide documentation in multiple languages for the same purpose as accepting everybody. As someone said earlier, we should embrace all. You bring up one of the more complex and complicated problems facing (I suppose) all multi-lingual projects. What language should we use or use most often and thoroughly? I am interested in hearing other's thoughts on this. Dan > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message