[Vimcdoc-translate] Fwd: Re: vim documentation Chinese translation

[Simon L. <wzh...@sp...>]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:38:34 +0200, "Bram Moolenaar" <Br...@mo...>
said:
> 
> Simon -
> 
> > I am leading a project of translating the vim online documentation
> > into Chinese (simplified). We've translated all the user manual and
> > a good portion of the reference manual as well. Last week we made
> > our latest release, which, I intend to be the last release for vim 6.2
> > and below. The coming releases will be for vim 7.3+ only since it 
> > now has a framework for accomodating transated help. Here is my
> > plan of what to do and I'd appreciate it if you can review it:
> 
> I suppose you mean 6.3 instead of 7.3.
> 
> Good to hear you did this work.  I can't read it, but I'm sure many
> Chinese users will be happy with it.
> 
> You mention the online documentation, but I suppose you translated the
> help files that are included with Vim.
> 
> > 1. encoding:
> >     I'd change the encoding to utf-8 and add 'enc=utf-8' on the 
> >    status line. I'd like to leave 'For Vim version' string as it is since
> >    it is awkward to translate.
> 
> Please read the help at ":help help-translated".  There must be a
> non-ASCII utf-8 character in the first line, otherwise Vim assumes the
> file is latin1.  Setting 'encoding' or 'fileencoding' in a modeline will
> not have the desired effect.
> 
> > 2. installation: 
> >     I intend to install the translation into $VIM/vimfiles/doc/zh_CN. E.g 
> >     /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/doc/zh_CN on Unix and 
> >     c:/vim/vimfiles/doc/zh_CN on Windows
> >     In $VIM/vimfiles/doc, there will be a 'tags-zh', which contain all
> >     the tags that are related with the translated doc.
> 
> Why use the zh_CN subdirectory?  Is this for Vim 6.2 only perhaps?
> Vim 6.3 assumes the help files are in the "doc" directory and have the
> extension .cnx.
> 
> > Can you see anything wrong with this approach? Any feedback will be
> > welcomed.
> > 
> > ps. Our website is at: 
> >        http://vimcdoc.sf.net (en)
> >  and 
> >        http://vcd.cosoft.org.cn (zh)
> > 
> > If you can ask the nice people at vim.sf.net to add a link to their 
> > 'translated help' page, that would help us to get a bit more famous. :-)
> 
> The page in China loads very slow, but it appears to work.  I'll add
> both the URLs.
> 
> When you have made a working set of files available, you might want to
> send a message in the Vim maillist.  That should give more people a hint
> about the existence of this work.
> 
> - Bram
> 
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