Help loads in french on my browser and not english as it used to.

Asked by GAngus

I just opened inkscape 0.48 (OSX Mac 10.4.11 PPC) and was drawing a few test things and
decided to learn more about the cloning process,so I hit the help menu to see the online manual, which
I have done many times before successfully.
Now, seemingly out of the blue, it takes me to a french web site and it is not the inkscape manual page.
I checked my inkscape prefs and NO it did not get changed to french somehow and says english..
perhaps the french server got hit ???
not that big a deal, but any help appreciated, thanks.....

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Best su_v (suv-lp) said :
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> Now, seemingly out of the blue, it takes me to a french
> web site and it is not the inkscape manual page.

AFAIR this used to work just fine (the manual _is: hosted on a French web site, and the link called from the 'Help' menu did not return a '500 internal server error' page).

Possibly this is a temporary glitch of the hosting server (free.fr) - if the links still fails in the next days, the issue will be forwarded to the author of the manual (and maintainer of the online version).

For now, use <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/> instead (which is the same link without the last part). Rest assured that this is the 'official' manual for Inkscape, kindly offered as valuable online resource for all Inkscape users by its author Tavmjong Bah.

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GAngus (jangus1) said :
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Oh, thanks, sorry to bother about this....
It's OK now and functioning normally again...
Guess it WAS just temporary glitch..........

thanks

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Tavmjong Bah (tavmjong-free) said :
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Yes, the manual is on a website hosted by a French Internet provider. Occasionally, they do have glitches.

For future reference, if this problem occurs again, wait a bit and try again. If the problem persists you can email me directly and I can verify that I haven't messed up the site.

Tav