Re: [Yes@outlook.com: Re: [zh-l10n] [pablo@mandrakesoft.com: Re: followup on gtk fontset problem.]] - Zh-l10n-archive

21 Sep 2001

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The hanzi are changed from traditional to simplified or viceversa
 > > > automatically by gettext.  
  a problem with this is about the iconv in glibc.
When convert
 big5->utf-8->GB, some traditional characters will be lost. Because
 tradtional character that are not in GB2312 will not be mapped
 from utf-8->GB2312.  
 No, gettext does transliteration, that is a traditional char is converted to
 a simplified one and vice versa.
 I tried it and there is no loses, no '?' appear (well, maybe it may happen for
 some obscure hanzi; but at least for the generally used it seems to work
 well).

 Try for example to launch:

 LANGUAGE=zh_CN.GB2312 LC_ALL=zh_TW.Big5 gnomine

 and

 LANGUAGE=zh_TW.Big5 LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB2312 gnomine

 and see how it works.

Well ... the point is still that there is some problem with the terms used
by traditional Chinese users and the simplified Chinese users. I really don't
think it is a good idea, in terms of interface ... 

	 - G.