Re: [TRANSLATE] web/xml/news news.en.xml,1.2,1.3

BABA Yoshihiko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 
On 2004.11.10, at 12:57, Mich?le Garoche <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Le 10 nov. 2004, ? 4:51, Daniel Macks a ?crit :
>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:27:31AM +0100, Mich?le Garoche wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 10 nov. 2004, ? 1:52, Daniel Macks a ?crit :
>>>
>>>> For news, we put the English in all other language xsl files also;
>>> Do not do that please, it has no sense to mix two languages together.
>>> Just as for the other files, change the English file and forward the
>>> diff to translators.
>>
>> I am following Baba's explicit instructions from last week on 
>> fink-i18n:
>>
>>   Subject: Multilingualize News Section of Fink Website
>>
>>   News editors: Make sure to edit news/news.en.xml, not news/news.xml.
>>   Please add newsitem to the files of all the languages. This will let
>>   the users of other languages see the news in English.
>No, I'm completely against it. Do it for the languages which do not 
>already exist, not for the languages which exist.
>
>At least, let a chance to the translators to update their translation.
>
>And particularly in this case, where it is an update, not a new news.

The problem is that we don't have translators any more for some languages. German and Chinese news are mixture of those languages and English. It will confuse news writers if there are two different poicies. Any better idea for solution welcome.


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BABA Yoshihiko
Kyoto Center for Community Collaboration
Fink Support, Translation and Documentation Team


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