Which place for docs in French, German, etc?

David Carlisle TWG-TDS@SHSU.edu
Wed, 28 Feb 96 18:16:09 GMT


> using the 2 letter codes is also a good idea to prevent upset and
> confusion. i am afraid we would have to have "us" for english, sigh.

Like Alan I'm not really convinced that doc/<language> is really an
improvement, but I could live with it.

However

doc/us

is fairly horrible (especially as I've gone to so much trouble to
spell colour correctly in the documentation, if not the in the command
names in the code sections:-)

Someone, somewhere, once posted a list of ISO language (as opposed to
country) codes, I have a feeling it was Joachim, to this list, but I
could be wrong. 

I would have thought though it would be clearer all round if
understandable names for the directories were used, rather than codes,
after all the doc area is for humans. I suppose the codes are to avoid
deciding on whether to use the English name for the language, or the
native spelling. I would have though either (even inconsistly) would
be better than codes. One could take babel option names as a first
choice (which doesn't help in French as babel accepts both french and
francais...) 

David