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13224b1e86SFederico Vaga   ko_KR/index
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1820bd1249SFederico Vaga.. _translations_disclaimer:
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23f7ebe6b7SAkira Yokosawa.. raw:: latex
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27224b1e86SFederico VagaTranslation's purpose is to ease reading and understanding in languages other
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3320bd1249SFederico VagaIt is very unlikely that an update to :ref:`linux_doc` will be propagated
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4220bd1249SFederico VagaA translation is not a fork of the official documentation, therefore
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5020bd1249SFederico VagaTranslations try to be as accurate as possible but it is not possible to map
5120bd1249SFederico Vagaone language directly to all other languages. Each language has its own
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