From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2013-02-07T12:51:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:46935] Re: [ruby-cvs:46289] zzak:r39120 (trunk): * doc/security.rb: Translate japanese kanji to english

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:03 PM, "Martin J. Dürst"
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> ruby-dev で英語での議論失礼しました。要約しますと、英語の文書の中に「日 本語はこちら」とかの文を英語にするか日本語にするか
> (もしくは、両方にする か) という議論です。是非ご意見をお寄せください。
>
>
> On 2013/02/07 11:16, Zachary Scott wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin, You're welcome to revert it.
>>
>> I had changed it to english after Koichi-san made the following comment:
>> 08:51<  _ko1>  But I think all Japanese programmer can read "Japanese
>> version is here: ..."
>
>
> I agree with Koichi. But it's not that they can't read it, it's that it may
> take quite a bit more time for them to find it in an English text (as
> compared to an all-Japanese text, or a Japanese sentence in an English
> text).
>
> I'm just guessing that, but this guess is based on my own experience: I read
> Japanese quite fluently, but it still takes me quite a bit more time to spot
> something in a Japanese text compared to in an English text.

To me, both  "日本語版もありました。" and "Japanese version is here" are fine. And
I think both zzak's and martin's opinion makes sense.

_Personally_ I use following rules.

- If expected reader is programmer and only have two languages
(English and Japanese)
  -> English (e.g. Japanese is here) is best. Because almost all
japanese *programmer* can
      read English quickliy. And removing Japanese help English
speaker a little.

- If expected reader is not programmer or have three or more languages.
  -> Martin-san's way is best. Because it is standard way of multi
language text.

In this case, I'm incline zzak. but I suspect another guys have
another decision threshold. So,
I don't want enforce my threshold. Please think this is just my
personal feelings.