- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:26:22 -0500
- To: Michele Diodati <md4223@mclink.it>
- Cc: w3c-translators@w3.org, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Mr. Diodati, Excellent question, however I've become involved with the translation efforts mainly through policy and intellectual property concerns. Since this is an editorial issue, I'm cc'ing w3c-translators@w3.org and the HTML 4.0 editors. My initial response would to do a literal translation, including the errors. Another possibility, as you say is to, is to make note where you made the corrections, perhaps using a different color text or some such thing, but I am personally less comfortable with that. At 10:59 AM 3/17/98 +0100, Michele Diodati wrote: >Dear Mr. Reagle, > >my team of volunteers (http://www.liberliber.it/progetti/html40/index.htm) >is working at Italian translation of HTML 4.0. I would like to know your >opinion about this important problem: what do we have to do with larger >known errors listed at >http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html40-updates/html40-errata.html? In other words: >do we try to translate the errors in the original files, although the >editors themselves have already published corresponding corrections? Or may >we integrate the already specified corrections into our translation, of >course clearly specifying, when the case occurs, that the original document >is a bit different and that our translation keeps trace of W3C's published >corrections? > >I have read your copyright information at >http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/IPR-FAQ.html#translate; I have also read >the example at http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/translation-example.html. >Moreover I want to clearly specify that my question does not regard parts >of HTML 4.0 english document that we suppose are wrong, but those known >larger errors listed in html40-errata.html file: my idea, perhaps wrong, is >that has no sense to translate an error, knowing that it is a known, >listed, "official" error. > >Excuse me for my English and thank you in advance for your answer. > >Regards, >Michele Diodati - Roma (Italy) >http://www.liberliber.it > ___________________________________________________________ Joseph Reagle Jr. W3C: http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ Policy Analyst Personal: http://web.mit.edu/reagle/www/ mailto:reagle@w3.org
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