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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:42:10AM +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote: > At Tue, 7 May 2002 23:26:01 +0100, > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Dan - the README says this: > > > > There is a Japanese translation of this man page available at > > http://member.nifty.ne.jp/hippo2000/perltips/storable.htm , > > courtesy of Kawai, Takanori <kawai@nippon-rad.co.jp>. > > > > Please could you check to see how current that page is? > > [I know no Japanese, so I've no idea] > > It doesn't have a version number but the date translation was done is: > listed as 1999/09/20 which is too stale. > > I know him personally so I can tell him about this. What should I do it? Last night while re-writing the README I didn't know what the best solution was. My concern was that I knew the page could no longer be completely up-to-date because p5p has been editing Storable, but I wasn't sure how out of date it was. Last I started by assuming the page wouldn't change, and so I didn't know whether it was better to have a link in to a page that is somewhat out of date but still useful, or not have the link because so many things have changed since the translation that it's more of a hindrance than a help. However... The best solution would be if he could update his page to a translation of the current Storable manpage. However, it doesn't feel very polite asking someone I don't know to do a considerable amount of work, particularly when I'm aware that the "current" Storable manpage is a moving target. (As I don't know any Japanese speakers personally, by "someone I don't know" I mean him, yourself, Dan Kogai and anyone else who could make a translation.) Hopefully the only changes there will now be are minor corrections, and grammar and style improvements, so a translation done now wouldn't become wasted effort in the near future because of more changes. But I still feel bad asking someone else to do something which is potentially futile. If it is possible to make a Japanese translation of the current manpage would it make sense to include a Japanese translation of the README in the distribution? Or is the current .jp URL in the English README enough to alert Japanese speakers to it? Nicholas Clark