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GitHub: Why chinese dev wrote docs in mandarin?
Hi.. recently we found so many repo documented in mandarin.
I mean they fork a repo originally in english. Why did they conribute back in mandarin ?
It give us one more barrier to learn a new things.
- jimsmart 8y agoImagine it was the other way around: you forked some code documented in Mandarin. Are you able to translate your contribution into Mandarin before submitting it back? Did you know that there are more people in the world with Mandarin as a first langauge, than with English as a first language? Here's a good new thing to learn: Google Translate! ;) — Seriously though: I found it very useful when using "Ant Design of React" in a recent project (a great UI library which is primarily documented in Chinese (or a dialect of), although also -partly- translated into English). In most cases it's really not a big deal. Personally, I'll use libraries documented in any language, providing the code is fit for purpose, and the docs give me enough information (translated or not).
- sexy_seedbox 8y ago> Imagine it was the other way around: you forked some code documented in Mandarin Nit-pick: it's Chinese, not Mandarin. Mandarin is a dialect.
- jimsmart 8y agoI know this, hence me stating Ant Design is documented primarily in Chinese. I was simply using the same terms as the OP — perhaps that’s where your niggle should really be directed? ;)
- jedisct1 8y agoBecause it's the most spoken language in the world?
- sexy_seedbox 8y agoNot on Github... at least for now : )
- lahvak 8y agoSo that more people can read it? I mean, they could have used some other dialect of Chinese, but Mandarin seems to be the safest bet.