Re: Brasilian Portuguese

Hey there, Tim refered me to you guys, and I wanted to know how to could get involved in the translation of the PHP documentation to Brasilian Portuguese. Please get back to me, as I am really keen on getting started on that. >Delivered-To: jpsantos@vex.net >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:55:22 -0700 >From: Jim Winstead <jimw@php.net> >To: John P Santos <jpsantos@vex.net> >Cc: webmaster@php.net >Subject: Re: Brasilian Portuguese >User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i >Sender: jimw@trainedmonkey.com > >you should get in touch with the people on the phpdoc@lists.php.net >list. that's where people translating the documentation coordinate >their efforts. > >jim > >On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:37:37PM -0500, John P Santos wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am living and working in Brasil and I have started doing some serious >> work using PHP, which rocks hardcore. Now my collegues here are not that >> keen on the English language and I have noticed that the documentation is >> severely incomplete in the Portuguese section, in that the majority of >> functions lack documentations in Portuguese (I expect that is the problem, >> otherwise it's a bug in your site, but I doubt that). Anyway, I am writing >> to you not to complain that you need Portuguese documentation, but that you >> NEEEEED portuguese documentation, and I need it too to teach these guys >> here how to mess around with it. I am going to be setting up some courses >> and such so it would really help. What I am offering is to write the >> translations for you myself, yes that's right, *I* will write them for ya, >> one by one. This will serve two purposes, the first is for me to become >> really familiar with the ins and outs of each function, and so that >> everyone else in Brasil can benefit from it. >> >> So what do you say? You think we can work together on this? Please let me >> know because I will start writing the translations on my own soon, and it >> would be nice if they could be posted online for reference. >> >> Regards, >> >> John P Santos aka PHP Addict and Open Source Preacher. >