[FM Discuss] Questions about Digital Foundations in Mandarin(Simplified Chinese) Translation

[adam]

On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 00:09 -0600, qimei luo wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I recently started working on translating on Digital Foundations from
> English to Simplified Chinese, few problems/confusions came out. Hope
> some one can help me out here:
> 
> 1, I signed up to get informed if there's any changes have been make
> for the translation, but when i click "compare", i will always get
> some gibberish like "本书是由两ä½�从事数ç". For example, the
> link below:
> http://translate.flossmanuals.net/bin/compare/DigitalFoundations_zh/Introduction?render=sidebyside&context=&skin=floss2&rev1=10&rev2=11  
> Is there any explanation for this? can it be fixed?

ah yes. you can use 'rdiff' instead of 'compare' with the same syntax. i
will change the link next week


> 
> 2, I realized there are various revision numbers. How dose the default
> revision be chosen? For example, for Chapter 4 it says "The version
> you are translating is revision number: 1.17", but few chapters ahead
> it says "The version you are translating is revision number: 1.16"
> How could I know which revision is the most updated one? since i
> definitely wanna make sure i translate the most updated version

the version number is linked to the chapter. if there is a new one click
on the drop down menu next to that and you see all revisions including
newer ones

adam

> 
> 3, If anyone here is interested in joining us, please do let me know.
> Definitely need some help here.
> 
> Qimei Luo
> 
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