[MPlayer-translations] Is partially translated man page acceptable?

[voroshil at gmail.com]

Diego Biurrun wrote: 
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:02:29PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > 
> > On 11/5/06, voroshil at gmail.com <voroshil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >I have translated for about 30% of mplayer man page (large sections "VIDEO 
> > >OUTPUT DRIVERS",
> > >"DECODING/FILTERING OPTIONS", "AUDIO FILTERS", "VIDEO FILTERS", "GENERAL
> > >ENCODING OPTIONS" "CODEC SPECIFIC ENCODING OPTIONS" still untranslated).
> > >There is no russian translation at this time.
> > >
> > >Can i commit partially translated file (currently in koi8-r) ?
> > 
> > I haven't followed the UTF8 discussion too closely, but if you could
> > convert it to utf-8, it would be better. If for some reason, it's too
> > complicated, just forget about it: it's better to have a translated
> > file than nitpicking about a charset.
> 
> Leave it in koi8-r for the moment until we find a way to reliably
> convert from UTF-8 man pages to HTML and text.
> 
> Would UTF-8 be a problem for you?
Yes, my system (Gentoo) cannot dislpay man page in UTF-8 correctly. 
So, i prefer to work with
koi8-r at least till translation will be completed or we get working solution
for displaying man pages correctly.
> 
> > >Have anybody objections against this?
> > 
> > I'd say yes. Commit your partially translated file, and state what's
> > done and what's left to do in the commit message (IMHO, it's not a
> > good idea to put it in the header of the file, but it's just me).
> 
> Yes, if you are going to finish the translation then it's no problem for
> me.
Yes, i want to translate full file, but i cannot say how many time will be 
needed for translation (i'm afraid at least one month), because file really 
large for me :(.
> 
> Diego
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