[Vimcdoc-translate] Fwd: Re: vim documentation Chinese translation

[Simon L. <wzh...@sp...>]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:51:18 +0200, "Bram Moolenaar" <Br...@mo...>
said:
> 
> Simon -
> 
> > > Please read the help at ":help help-translated".  There must be a
> > > non-ASCII utf-8 character in the first line, otherwise Vim assumes the
> > > file is latin1.  
> >
> > So if I translated the 'Last change:' string into Chinese, Vim will be
> > able to figure out the encoding then?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > > Why use the zh_CN subdirectory?  Is this for Vim 6.2 only perhaps?
> > > Vim 6.3 assumes the help files are in the "doc" directory and have the
> > > extension .cnx.
> > I think I am being lazy. Because all the translated documents in CVS has 
> > the form *.txt. Is there technical reason why a subdirectory is a bad
> > idea?
> 
> It's a choice.  One advantage is that the help files can be dropped into
> an existing directory.
> 
> It has now been implemented in Vim 6.3 this way, so let's stick to it.
> 
> But for Vim 6.2 you have to figure out a solution yourself, since Vim
> does not support translated help files.
> 
> > Also, what should be a good tag file name? 'tag-zh' or 'tag-cn'?
> 
> We have to make sure that it still works if Taiwanese help files are
> ever made.  These are traditional chinese.  I suppose using "cn" and
> "tw" avoids confusion.  "zh" is used for both languages, thus that would
> cause confusion.
> 
> - Bram
> 
> -- 
> How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?
> 
>  /// Bram Moolenaar -- Br...@Mo... -- http://www.Moolenaar.net  
>  \\\
> ///        Sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/
> \\\
> \\\              Project leader for A-A-P -- http://www.A-A-P.org       
> ///
>  \\\  Buy at Amazon and help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF.nl/click1.html
>  ///
-- 
  Simon Liang
  wzh...@sp...

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an
                          unladen european swallow