[UA-discuss] Document Translations

[Mark Svancarek]

Yes, Russian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yuriy Kargapolov [mailto:yvk at uanic.info] 
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 11:19 AM
To: Mark Svancarek; Don Hollander; UA-discuss at icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Document Translations

Thanks Mark,

What about Russian?
I'm ready to organize the translation with my friends.

--Yuri

Thursday, January 28, 2016, 8:36:06 PM, you wrote:

> I had considered that we should translate to Spanish and German simply 
> because Luisa could perform this translation or review someone else's 
> translation.  It seemed to be "low-hanging fruit".

> That said, UA-Readiness is probably more important to Cyrillic, Arabic 
> and various Asian script-users.  (I wish there was more interest in 
> South America...)

> If money is no obstacle, I vote for Simplified Chinese, Arabic, 
> Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Thai and Persian to start.

> I know there is interest in Afghan and Pakistan governments, too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org
> [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of Don Hollander
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:23 PM
> To: UA-discuss at icann.org
> Subject: [UA-discuss] Document Translations

> As we get closer to completing some of our foundation documents, its 
> now time to turn to translation.

> The documents that we have or will have ready soon include:

> A UA Fact Sheet - complete
> A quick guide to UA (covers topics and quick recommendations for 
> Acceptance, Validation, Storage, Processing, Display and Confusable
> Characters) A Definition of UA Readiness An Introduction to Universal 
> Acceptance (a very comprehensive document)

> Our quick message to webmasters whose sites are not UA Ready has been 
> translated by the community into 7 lagnuages.

> My question is:

> 1) Do we need to do translation at this point in time?   (It is
> relatively early in our efforts and there may be substantial revisions 
> once we put the documents ‘out in the wild’)
> 2) What languages should we translate to?

> Your thoughts, please

> Don