Re: [SM-I18N] Chinese Simp Problem

[Mikael M. <mik...@tj...>]

Hi,

answer follows.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:35:17AM +0800, Arick Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have problem when using the Chinese Simplify Translaction. No word can
> display correctly in the web page and no character set was selected by
> browser (IE and Mozilla).
> 
> My i18n.php file.
> $languages['en_US']['NAME']    = 'English';
> $languages['en_US']['CHARSET'] = 'iso-8859-1';
> $languages['en']['ALIAS'] = 'en_US';
> 
> $languages['zh_TW']['NAME']    = 'Chinese Trad';
> $languages['zh_TW']['CHARSET'] = 'big5';
> $languages['tw']['ALIAS'] = 'zh_TW';
> 
> $languages['zh_CN']['NAME']    = 'Chinese Simp';
> $languages['zh_CN']['CHARSET'] = 'gb2312';
> $languages['cn']['ALIAS'] = 'zh_CN';
> 
> Both English and Chinese Trad can work find but not Chinese Simp. Please
> suggest.
> 
> Arick
> 

Your problem may be related to a problem with the Swedish translation
that I have had. I have two Swedish locale definitions i my system:

sv_SE.UTF-8 UTF-8
sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1

But the Swedish translation didn't work in Squirrelmail since the sv_SE
locale wasn't defined. This can be solved by adding the full locale name to
i18n.php for all locales, which is the way I prefer. Or it can be
solved on each system, by defining the short locale (without encoding)
or adding a locale alias.

If my assumptions are correct, your problem can be
solved if you edit the i18n.php as follows:

$languages['zh_CN']['NAME']    = 'Chinese Simp';
$languages['zh_CN']['CHARSET'] = 'gb2312';
$languages['zh_CN']['LOCALE'] = 'zh_CN.gb2312';
$languages['cn']['ALIAS'] = 'zh_CN';

I don't know if there are any good reasons that the full locale names aren't
used for all locales. Since when zh_CN.gb2312 is requested it will use zh_CN 
instead if it can't find the zh_CN.gb2312 definitions. But it doesn't work the
other way around. I.e. when zh_CN is requested and it can't be found in
the system, it will not use zh_CN.gb2312 instead.

Regards,
Mikael