[i18n] Start traditional Chinese translation for Mercurial

[willie]

Sorry for missing cc to maillist.


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From: willie <willie.tw at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/3/30
Subject: Re: [i18n] Start traditional Chinese translation for Mercurial
To: Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>


Dear Martin,

Here are some links which stand for my perspective:

http://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=118304881326446&w=2
http://osdir.com/ml/web.gallery.devel/2005-12/msg00044.html
http://kerneltrap.org/index.php?q=mailarchive/git/2007/7/21/252300/thread

I'm tired to argue against this issue, so I won't follw this issue
anymore. I will respect the decision that you make. Thank you so much.

Sincerely yours,

Willie

2009/3/29 Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:
> Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2009/3/28 Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:
>>> willie <willie.tw at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Dear list,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to volunteer contributing translation of traditional
>>>> Chinese. I've read the related page [1], and wanted to see if this
>>>> task has already overlaped.
>>>
>>> Great -- I haven't seen or heard of such a translation.
>>>
>>>> Note: the Chinese translation distributed with Mercurial currently is
>>>> different from this task. Traditional Chinese is used by people who
>>>> live in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
>>>
>>> Okay. I can see that Subversion has two files: "zh_CN.po" and
>>> "zh_TW.po". Do you think we should rename our files like that?
>>>
>>>> [1] http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/TranslatingMercurial
>>>
>>
>> I don't thinks so, rename is not necessary.
>>
>> We can have both zh.po, zh_TW.po and zh_HK.po.
>> The zh.po is default for Chinese users.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Martin Geisler
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