Re: LYNX-DEV LYMessages_en.h translation

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:

> > If you have translations to add to the Lynx distribution, you should
> > post them to the list. I'll see that they get added to the source code.
> As long as Scott is graciously offering space on his server, I would
> encourage putting translations on an http site and not bundle them up
> with the distribution.  Bundling them up could soon add several 100 KB.

I favor bundling them so they don't get lost.  Message files should
compress well; the current one shrinks to 10K.

> Perhaps this is a good time to make a call for where the various
> translations of LYMessages_en.h are.  I personally do my best to keep
> a Japanese one up to date (originally translated by Takuya Asada around
> Lynx2.6).  It's available at:
> 
>       "http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/lynxdev/LYMessages_ja.h.gz";.
> 
> Seems to me in the past Chinese, Korean, German and French translations
> have been mentioned on Lynx-dev.

I second this.  Babelfish should give at least the 5 Western European
languages quickly.

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