Re: [Fink-i18n] Problem with the chinese Translation (which is the solution to the trouble I am seeing)

[BABA Y. <yos...@vi...>]

On 1 Mar 2004, at 00:37, Jeff Ye wrote:

> Another issue is: it is really probably that we have to do with China 
> mainland/Hong Kong/Taiwan three Chinese localization versions in the 
> future. Because I think what I have done is completely useless for 
> those who live in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The fact is: the translation 
> of computer terms is completely different for Hong Kong/Taiwan, so, 
> they will feel very difficult to understand the my version even though 
> they might have no difficult for read Simplified Chinese characters. 
> It is not just for business purpose.
>
> Just think about it, if UK guys use 'Verser' while US guys use 
> 'Server', I guess everybody agree we should make a UK English version 
> as well as a US English version.
>
> It is OK for me to use 'zh', 'tw', 'hk' as a language coding schema, 
> but I want to make sure that we have three options available, not just 
> 'zh'.

That's the culture.  :)

> Another question is I found that Tranditional Chinese is identified by 
> key 'zh-tw' in PhpLang, so for its Localization, should it be 
> something like: uguide.zh-tw.xml? (The same problem laid on Brazilian 
> Portuguese, should it be uguide.pt-br.xml?)

I think so.  We have to keep in mind that the language code may not 
always be 2-letter.  not really smart.

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