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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To: Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de>
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Stefan Bethke writes:
>So, after a busy weekend (drum roll):
>http://www.promo.de/people/stefan/freebsd/home1/
>While providing both additional languages (read: translation of the english
>pages) and local information is definitly worthwhile, it could easly grow
>into a maintainance nightmare.

I don't think this is a real problem. Currently we have only a
japanese handbook. And maybe we have in the next century a french,
german, and spain handbook. Thats are only four translations, not
more.

Wolfram

>I would suggest the following structure. A typical FreeBSD WWW server
>(including www.freebsd.org) provides one or more of:
>- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/en/ the English pages (what is now /)
>- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/YY/ other languages such as JP, DE, PO, or FR;
>    verbose translation of English version
>- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/ a link/redirect to the "preferred" language home
>    page on that server)
>- http://www.XX.freebsd.org/local/YY/ information local to country XX, in
>    language YY
>
>A translated version should provide tranlations for at least the Web pages,
>the Handbook and FAQ being a plus.
>
>The non-english pages are maintained by a group of native speakers, on a
>server local to them. The documents are distributed through CVSup, so that
>any FreeBSD Web server can provide any language version it wants.
>
>Examples:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/en/ - English home page on "main" server
>http://www.de.freebsd.org/fr/ - French home page on German mirror
>http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/de/ - Local pages for Germany in German.
>http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/en/ - Local pages for Germany in English.