On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:55:56PM +1000, Leon Ho wrote:
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.
Yep.
I thought it might be confusing as well ..
Leon
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> All:
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> Please check this out, what is your opinion?
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> --forwarded message--
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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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> In-Reply-To: <20010916233445.A15083(a)anakin.wychk.org>rg>; from
snailtalk(a)linux-mandrake.com on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:34:24PM +1000
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> Kaixo!
>
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:34:24PM +1000, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
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> > > 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?
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> yes.
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> > zh_TW - > zh_HK or vice versa should be Ok.
>
> that doesn't involve any conversion :)
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> > Trouble is, the terminology between GB / Big5 speakers is different ...
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> 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 ...
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> So you think that displaying in English is better?
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> >
> > - G.
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