Re: Is the New List Possible

Alexander,

I will try to inquire with our system gurus a.k.a. system wizards. In the meantime, I 
would like to know how many Russian translators would be interested by such a mailing 
list, ie, whether there is a real demand for it. If there is, I am sure we can do something.

Sincerely

Ivan

Alexander Savenkov wrote:
> Hello translators!
> 
> I thought of a feature that could help to further promote the W3C
> mission. Looking at w3c-translators-fr@w3.org and the discussion
> between the three translators of the WCAG1 document I realized how
> nice it would be to have a mailing list for Russian translators.
> 
> The main purposes of the list would be (I'm sure you're aware of
> them):
> a) to collect various terms translation by exchanging
> translation details and discussions and defining a common vocabulary;
> b) to improve the quality of the translations by setting a more or
> less standartized collective translation process and sharing
> experience;
> c) to standardize the translation of arguable terms and to
> recheck the existing translations;
> d) to discuss various issues related to translation into Russian:
> tools with Unicode support, phrasal verbs, etc.
> 
> Obviously, it's impossible to discuss these in Russian on
> w3c-translators. Currently the messages exchanged by the translators
> are kept offline and thus are unavailable for the rest of the world.
> 
> I wonder if the W3C's mailing list archiver could be configured to
> convert the incoming messages into UTF-8, as that could posses a
> serious problem taking into account the number of Russian encodings
> that are currently in use.
> 
> I know that Martin and the team were working on something in this
> area. Is there any progress?
> 
> Happy translating and happy New Year!
> 
> Alex.

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