Forum OpenACS Development: Re: i18n of content repository content

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20: Re: i18n of content repository content (response to 17)
Posted by Jesse Wendel on 05/18/04 04:38 AM
I strongly disagree.

It is important in looking at any content of significance, to know if it is original source material, or a translation.

If it is a translation, the reader should:

a) know what language it is translated from (which may allow one to make sense of gramatical and cultural mistakes in the translation) and,

b) have access to the original source material if at all possible, so one may check the translation for oneself.

Obviously, with OpenACS, both of these should be possible.

Jesse

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21: Re: i18n of content repository content (response to 20)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 05/18/04 10:14 AM
So if the original of an item is in German, and somebody translates it to French, and then somebody goes French-English, should the English page have a link "translated from French(link); original document is German(link)"?
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22: Re: i18n of content repository content (response to 21)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 05/18/04 10:35 AM
I do think so. Though this might result in a pretty long translation trail...
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24: Re: i18n of content repository content (response to 21)
Posted by Guan Yang on 05/18/04 03:37 PM
Joel: Why don't we just say that this is application specific?