[SM-I18N] Hello.

[Benson J. <ben...@ya...>]

Hello guys,

I am new here. :-) just subscribed seconds ago.

I am working on the Chinese(simplified) translation.
After couple of days, a draft has been done, which
covers most pages. As there are some expressions/terms
I don't understand, I would like to have someone to
explain them to me in English. I just don't want to
mis-translate those unsure items.

1> "toggle all" in the message list page. what does it
mean? is it as same as "select/unselect all"?
2> under options/folder preferences/, there is a item
called "memory search". what does it mean, and what
does it do?
3> how do I translate the "trash/sent/drafts" into
Chinese (simplified), since there seems no entries for
them in .po file.
4> under options/display preference/, there is a item
called "Enable Printer Friendly Clean Display", I
enabled it, but nothing happened. I don't know what
does it do, and therefore can't translate it. could
anyone explain this one to me?
5> this problem is not, actually a translation related
one. but it's worth to mention. In the list of
languages under /options/display preference/, there is
a language called Taiwan. Taiwan is NOT a language.
The proper term should be called "Chinese
(traditional)". Actually, there are a lot of people
still using Traditional Chinese all over the world,
not only Taiwanese, although they are the major group.
Besides, this may cause a serious political issue.
Also, the language I am working on is defined as
"Chinese", which is incorrect either. It should be
called "Chinese (simplified)". I hope these are
corrected in next release. 
6> In i18n.php file, "Chinese" entry is misconfigured
too. I changed it. please see below.
==========================================
$languages['zh_TW']['NAME']    = 'Chinese
(Traditional)';    # was named as Taiwan
$languages['zh_TW']['CHARSET'] = 'big5';
$languages['tw']['ALIAS'] = 'zh_TW';

$languages['zh_CN']['NAME']    = 'Chinese
(simplified)';   #was named as Chinese, language code
was incorrect too.
$languages['zh_CN']['CHARSET'] = 'gb2312';
$languages['cn']['ALIAS'] = 'zh_CN';
===========================================
7> This is the last one...... for this moment. ;-)
After I translate the days(like Mon, Tue, etc.) and
Month(like Jan, Feb, etc.) into Chinese. They are not
shown correctly. The is a compatibile issue. In
Chinese both traditional and simplified, days in a
week are named with two characters (each Chinese
character contains two bytes, two characters are four
bytes), but in English, the short expressions are only
three bytes. Therefore, all first Chinese characters
of days and months are shown well, but not are the
second ones, and this prevent HTML codes from working
properly too. At this point, I have though three
solutions. 1) Change days and months in Chinese into
something like "weekday"(one character) + a number.
But the Sunday has to be two characters. I can not
call it as something like weekday7, it is too funny to
be accepted. 2) make an image for each day and month.
then insert into .po file with <img></img> tag. This
one seems better, however, as you can see what is
going to happen if a user adjusts the font size. 3)the
best solution would be to change the way SquirrelMail
processes days and months. make it compatible with
Chinese. But this is the job for its development team.
Any suggestions about this?

I appreciate your answers and helps. 

Thank you very much!

Bo Jin.

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/