Re: About file html40-errata.html

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
 >

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Joseph Reagle Jr.  W3C:     http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
Policy Analyst     Personal:  http://web.mit.edu/reagle/www/
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Received on Tuesday, 17 March 1998 09:50:51 UTC