Peter Barnes a ?crit : >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Gregory Pittman" <gpittman at iglou.com> >>To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >>Subject: Re: [Scribus] Insert a symbol char >>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:48:41 -0400 >> >>Craig Bradney wrote: >> >>>Once again, replying in French is fine. We have decided and >>>reiterated the answer that we will not split up the mailing list >>>and we want to keep all answers here, in whatever language. >>> >>>Basically he says search and replace euros by ? works fine if >>>you choose the font with the ? symbol. >>> >> >>That having been said, many of us are happy with dual language posts, >>with at least the gist of the conversation in English as an addendum >>(just like you've done, Craig). >> >>Greg > > > I agree with Greg and strongly urge that the mailing list encourages at least > "the gist of the conversation in English" for each posting. Otherwise some > posts, both current and archived, are going to be inaccessible to the > majority of people - which would be a great waste of a useful resource. > > Also, Craig says French is acceptable. But if all other languages are > acceptable too, the mailing list could become chaotic in the future - > especially if there is no "gist of the conversation in English". > > In general, I love the variety of languages, and I mean no disrespect to > those who prefer their own language to English, but communication and > accessibility surely come first on a technical Internet mailing list? > > Peter > > I remember that in november 2005 when I came to Scribus I asked wether we could make a different mailing list, only in French, and the devs sais that it was better to keep only 1 list, multilingual. I remember that I saw some messages in German, in Portguese, and I thought that was good for people who speak this language and are lost in English. I remember that I try to make many efforts for writing the majority of my posts in English: all my questions are in English, but for some answers for french-language users I use French better than nothing (it takes 1 minute in French, 5 minutes in English, for me). What is better? Helping a few people (those who understand French, for this question) or zero? And that answer was not a tremendous idea, just a way of using find/replace - I think there had many answers explaining that, in English...
Raphael
