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The OpenBSD project strives to maintain many high standards, one of them is to supply users with excellent documentation, in the form of man pages and web pages.
Now we want to take this one step further and supply users with translated versions of certain key docs into their native language.
The first step will be translating the most important web pages into common languages. Next step will be adding INSTALL docs and introductory man pages.
As with all OpenBSD activity, this work is done by volunteers.
| cs | Czech | Milos Urbanek, Vladimir Kotal, Vaclav Rehak and Lubomir Sedlacik |
| de | German | Jan-Uwe Finck, Alexander von Gernler and Thomas W. Horna |
| es | Spanish | Horacio and Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido |
| fr | French | Saâd Kadhi and Xavier Santolaria (click here for more information) |
| hu | Hungarian | Ishida and Zoltan Kiraly |
| ja | Japanese | UEDA Tatsuya, Toshihiko UEKI and Yusuke Shinyama |
| nl | Dutch | Daniël De Kok and Rogier Quaak |
| pl | Polish | Polish OpenBSD Doc Project |
| pt | Portuguese | Eduardo Alvarenga and Douglas Santos (click here for more information) |
| ru | Russian | Grigoriy Orlov and Denis Afonin |
| sh | Serbo-Croatian | Thomas W. Horna |
| zh-cn | Chinese (GB2312, Chinese simplified) | Zhong Guochun |
| zh-tw | Chinese (BIG5, Chinese traditional) | Sheng Jih Huang |
| ko | Korean | |
| it | Italian | |
| se | Swedish |
Everything is coordinated by Wim Vandeputte.
The website consists of multiple subdirectories which we will call sections, for each language there is an extra subdirectory in each section if a translation exists. This subdirectory has a name that is the two-letter ISO 639-1 language code, like 'es' for Spanish or 'de' for German. In that directory, we find files with the same names as their original [en] version, only translated in the correct language.
For example:
www/index.html www/goals.html www/security.html www/es/index.html www/es/goals.html www/faq/index.html www/faq/es/index.html
If www/es/index.html links to a translated page goals.html, it points to www/es/goals.html. If security.html is not (yet) translated, it should link to ../security.html, and points to www/security.html.
We will also maintain in each translated and original [en] file a series of links to the translated pages. These links should be sorted! You can find these in the left top of index page, for example: [de] [en] [es] [fr] [ja] [nl]
All the contributors have a CVS account on a dedicated CVS server steelix.kd85.com. After the pages are finished and up to date, they are synchronized with the main OpenBSD CVS repository.
The current status of the translation work can be tracked online via http://steelix.kd85.com/translation/status.html
More detailed documentation about the to-follow procedures is available from http://steelix.kd85.com/translation/translation-explained.html
Follow the instructions on http://steelix.kd85.com/translation/translation-explained.html
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