Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 00:04:24 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org> Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, ru-freebsd-doc@freebsd.ru, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, hanai@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization Message-ID: <19990516000424.48809@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19990515174717.A656@nagual.pp.ru>; from Andrey A. Chernov on Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:47:17PM %2B0400 References: <19990514204302.B43389@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990515222516E.k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp> <19990515174717.A656@nagual.pp.ru>
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On 1999-05-15 17:47:17 +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > The problem coming down the pipe with the full locale > > specification is cases where there may be numerous locales for > > any given language. Right now there are 4 de locales, 4 en > > locales, 4 fr locales, 2 it locales, and 2 nl locales that differ > > only in the country specification. While genuine > > language/dialect differences do exist in some cases, how likely > > is it that de_CH is going to produce a different set of > > translations that de_DE? > > Thinking from locale autosearch perspective, all particular language > variants could be linked to default langauge variant. If some language > variant different with default appearse, it can be de-linked making real > directory. > > But I don't think it really happens for documentation, so it seems that > <lang>/<encoding> scheme is right. Maybe even <lang>.<encoding> if people > choose only one encoding for documentation, but *not* simple <lang> > (assuming some unknown default encoding) which means that program can't > sense it. I prefer <lang>.<encoding> or just <lang> for translations in iso8859-1 character set. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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