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From: Shyam Mani <fox2mike@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:15:47
Message-Id: 42CE521D.60208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english by Peter Humphrey
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4 Peter Humphrey wrote:
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6 > I'd like to know what support there would be for splitting the two
7 > languages, so that original documents would be written using either the
8 > en_GB or the en_US locale and then be translated to the other. I'd be
9 > happy to contribute to such a translation effort.
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11 This is a serious waste of time IMHO. en_GB and en_US. Makes zero sense
12 to have two versions of the same doc. What about the other zillion en_*
13 locales? :)
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15 My point is, if a doc is readable, understandable and correct
16 grammatically and/or otherwise...it is fine. If it ain't broke, don't
17 fix it. We're not the GEDP :)
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Re: [gentoo-doc] american english/british english/??? english Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>