Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Friday, July 20, 2012 4:48 AM >On Jul 19 22:38, SPC wrote: >> Hello. I'm a Cygwin lists subscriber (with some problems from time to >> time to send mails but this is another story). >> >> The message about outdated FAQs of yesterday let me think in the >> general lack of translations of Unix-like-items documentation to >> spanish language. >> >> Exists something translated under Cygwin to spanish ? Some kind of team >> doing it ? >> >> In negative case I could dedicate some time to this project, including >> translations inside source code. > >I hope you mean the documentation sources. I'm not fluent in spanish and >converting my english comments in the Cygwin sources to spanish would >left me a bit puzzled :) > >The documentation is written by the developers. There's no doc team >nor a translation team, given that we have only a tiny number of >contributors to the Cygwin package codebase. If you're interested >in providing a spanish translation of the docs or the FAQs, we can >certainly arrange a side project for translations in CVS, and the >necessary web space to publish them. > >If you're interested, we could discuss the howto in the cygwin-apps >mailing list. > >Btw., the same goes for anybody who would like to provide translations >in any other language, naturally. I would just like to ask that you make >sure you mean that seriously and don't drop off right at the next stop.
I've wondered about this. My experience with Google Translate on non-technical text to French (which I speak reasonably, though far from fluently) is that it often works very well, though occasionally it generates a bit of utter nonsense. My question is whether it is good enough for something like a FAQ? Should this be officially recommended? For Corinna's expert opinion plus recently discussed languages: German: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcygwin.com%2Ffaq.html&act=url&tl=de Spanish: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcygwin.com%2Ffaq.html&act=url&tl=es Armenian: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcygwin.com%2Ffaq.html&act=url&tl=hy - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.