Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:13:08 -0800 From: darklogik@pittgoth.com To: Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Foreign language links, Was "doc" Message-ID: <3C162284.3862.4550907@localhost> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011210205547.01da5a10@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> References: <200112110059.fBB0xrD26962@messel.emse.fr>
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Matt and everyone else, may I propose a "multi-lang" link at the front of the page. Maybe, a drop down box that, reads "ENGLISH" but also has a listing for other languages, like GERMAN or even German, i'm sure most ppl would get the idea? Or is this not really our job or dept... Tom Rhodes On 11 Dec 2001, at 14:43, Matt Penna wrote: > At 02:05 AM 12/11/01 +0100, JalaL wrote: > >Bonjour! > > Je suis un nouveau utilisateur de FreeBSD et j'ai besoin de la > >documentation (installation, configuration) de preference en format pdf et en > >francais.Merci. > > > >J.MOURID, Debian lover. > > Dear folks, > > I responded privately with (I hope) a useful answer to this, but this > request made me look for a link to French documentation from > www.freebsd.org and the only one I was able to find was from > http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/translations.html. > > Unless I'm overlooking something obvious, it seems that links to > documentation in other languages are, for the most part, very much buried. > There's nothing wrong with the Doc project Translations page, but assuming > someone has only a very basic understanding of English, navigating to this > page from the main page would seem to be a matter of pure luck. > > I'm not quite sure what to suggest, though. Assuming a full translation of > the web site is not available in a particular language and therefore a > direct link at the top of the front page is not warranted, how could the > site be changed so that those without an understanding of English can > easily find documentation they can understand while keeping things > reasonably well-organized? > > Matt > > -- > Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu > ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM > "The trouble with computers, of course, is > that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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