I have looked some feedback of the users who found simplified
(or traditional if they use simp. chinese) Chinese translation is
'misunderstanding'. I think what they meant is that they don't like
the different terminology.
Leon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
All:
Please check this out, what is your opinion?
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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 01:09:19 +0200
From: Pablo Saratxaga <pablo(a)mandrakesoft.com>
To: Geoffrey Lee <snailtalk(a)linux-mandrake.com>
Subject: Re: followup on gtk fontset problem.
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snailtalk(a)linux-mandrake.com on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:34:24PM +1000
Kaixo!
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:34:24PM +1000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
and it
works very well...
so I plan to change the language entries like this:
LANGUAGE=zh_CN.GB2312:zh_CN:zh:zh_HK:zh_TW.Big5:zh_TW
LANGUAGE=zh_TW.Big5:zh_TW:zh_HK:zh:zh_CN.GB2312:zh_CN
so if a given translation doesn't exist in traditional/simplified Chinese;
but exists in the other, then it will be displayed, insead of English.
The hanzi are changed from traditional to simplified or viceversa
automatically by gettext.
Do you mean the automatic conversion between GB -> Big5, or vice versa?
yes.
zh_TW - > zh_HK or vice versa should be Ok.
that doesn't involve any conversion :)
Trouble is, the terminology between GB / Big5
speakers is different ...
Yes, but, itsn't it better than displaying in English?
it is only in the case where a native translation doesn't exist; then
if a translation of the other sort of Chinese exists, then a charset
conversion is done and it is displayed.
It only happens when a proper translation is not available
If this is the case, this wouldn't be
"we have a translation so it must be
better than nothing", it'd just confuse them ...
So you think that displaying in English is better?
- G.