- From: Stefan Mintert <mintert@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:39:33 +0100
- To: w3c-translators@w3.org, connolly@w3.org, reagle@w3.org
> There is one problem that has been brought up to W3C staff before, > and that may come up again, so I think it is worth discussing it > here in the list. > > There is no such thing as an "official" translation of HTML or > whatever into language X. The W3C does not have the manpower and [...] > In principle, it is possible to have two translations of the same > document into the same language. Of course, this is a waste of time, > and we try to avoid this by providing this list and the respective > pages. In this connection, the use of the definite article (in > languages where this is possible) is also a bit questionable, but [...] > Regards, Martin. > I'm sorry, Martin, I have fixed this on my pages immediately. Perhaps I can change it back to "official", if there should be a decision about an "official" translation in the future. Regards, Stefan. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Stefan Mintert UniDo: mintert@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de private: stefan@mintert.com WWW: http://www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~sm/ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "let the music keep our spirits high..." (Jackson Browne)
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