[i18n] Start traditional Chinese translation for Mercurial

[willie]

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From: willie <willie.tw at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [i18n] Start traditional Chinese translation for Mercurial
To: Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail.com>


Dear Dongsheng,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Dongsheng Song
<dongsheng.song at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/29 Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:
>> Believe me, Most of users in
>> Taiwan are more familiar with English than Simplified Chinese.
>
> You can said, I hate SC(Simplified Chinese).
>

I'm so surprised that you said that. :(
In fact, I really familiar English more than SC, I mean it.
I also think that SC is worthy to learn one day, because all of
Chinese in mainland use it.

> My some friends work in Taiwan corp. at mainland, they said,
> their boss can read and listen SC smoothly, but let they
> write report in TC(Traditional Chinese).
>

Yes, I know that, But not all of people in Taiwan:

1. English is learned by *EVERY* student in Taiwan, so there are still
many people familiar with TC and English, but not SC.

2. It's not just the topic about SC v.s. TC. There is a big gap here,
ex, the translated convention. This is a big probelm, even I can read
each word in SC, I still can't understand (or hard to understand) what
the sentence meaning.

> In fact, I have been collaborate with some Taiwan and Hong Kong
> corp., they(Traditional Chinese users) can read and listen SC
> smoothly too.
>
>>
>> I can see that a rename isn't necessary when we get a zh_TW.po file, but
>> right now the Simplified Chinese translation is a poor default when
>> people in Hong Kong and Taiwan cannot read it.
>>
>
> I can understand you hate SC, but you can ONLY delegate your self.
>
> I can not imagine, de_at and de_ch users ask for delete de.po,
> used de_de.po instead.
>

This is what I usually do in my laptop. Also, if a software do not
have zh_TW translation locale, I would like it fall back to English
interface instead of SC. The reason I mentioned above.

>> Unless we get a translation with Traditional Chinese quickly, I think it
>> would help users to rename zh.po to zh_CN.po like other projects do.
>>

Yeah, this is the main reason I started zh_HK and zh_TW translation.
Originally, I would like to only ask maintainer to rename zh.po to
zh_CN.po, but I think it's impolite. So I've started this translation
(Although I will keep using English interface still).