[Python-Dev] Translated Python documentation

[Tres Seaver]

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On 02/22/2017 07:10 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a member of the french #python-fr IRC channel on Freenode: it's 
> common to meet people who don't speak english and so are unable to 
> read the Python official documentation. Python wants to be widely 
> available, for all users, in any language: that's also why Python 3 
> now allows any non-ASCII identifiers: 
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/#rationale
> 
> There are a least 3 groups of people who are translating the Python 
> documentation in their mother language (french, japanese, spanish). 
> They tried to make it more official, but their attempt didn't go far 
> yet. I'm writing this email to propose to officially support 
> translated versions of the documentation.
> 
> For me, the most impotant point would be to give access to the 
> translated documentation from docs.python.org. For example, have a 
> dropdown list with available languages.
> 
> IMHO a reference in this domain is PHP: PHP documentation is 
> translated to at least 10 languages. See for example the "Change 
> language: [...]" list at:
> 
> http://php.net/echo
> 
> I'm not asking you to take any technical decision here, I'm just 
> asking for an official general "support" of translated documentation.

+1 for the idea.


Tres.
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