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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
 
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   </para>
  </sect1>
 
+ <sect1 id="about.translations">
+  <title>Translations</title>
+  <para>
+   The PHP manual is not only available in various formats,
+   it is also available in various languages. The text of the 
+   manual is first written in english, then teams of people across 
+   the world take care of translating it to thier native language.
+   if a translation for a specified function or chapter has not yet
+   been made, the build system of the manual falls back to the 
+   english version of it.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Peoples involved in the translations start from the <acronym>XML</acronym>
+   source code available from <ulink url="&url.php.cvs;">&url.php.cvs;</ulink>
+   and from it they translate to thier mother language. They do 
+   <emphasis>not use</emphasis> the <acronym>HTML</acronym>, the plain text, 
+   or the <acronym>PDF</acronym> version. It is the build system which takes 
+   care of the conversions from <acronym>XML</acronym> to human readable formats.
+  </para>
+  <note>
+   <para>
+    if you would like to help translating the documentation to your native 
+    language, please get in touch with the translation/documentation team
+    subscribing to the phpdoc mailinglist: send an empty mail to <ulink
+    url="mailto:&email.php.doc.subscribe;">&email.php.doc.subscribe;</ulink>.
+    The mailing list address is <literal>&email.php.doc;</literal>. State in the
+    message that you are interested in translating the manual to a language 
+    and someone will get back to you, helping you start a new language translation 
+    or reach the already active documentation team for your language.
+   </para>    
+  </note>
+  <para>
+   At the moment the manual is available, partly or not, in the following languages:
+   Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian,
+   Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   They all can be downloaded here: <ulink url="&url.php.docs;">&url.php.docs;</ulink>.
+  </para>
+ </sect1>
+
 </appendix>
 
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