[Localization] [Etoys] Fwd: Pootle now fully open for translation

[Yuan Chao]

On Nov 26, 2007 9:38 AM, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Among several other languages Kantonese or Yue is considered to be zh-CN as
> well as Mandarin is considered zh-CN. There are many characters in Kantonese
Hong Kong people use traditional Chinese characters as Taiwan people
do. Though for some terminology they use is close to "unsimplified"
version of zh-CN due to historical reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Hong_Kong

Taking wikipedia for example, originally there's only "traditional
Chinese" and "simplified Chinese" version with an auto-conversion
table. (though not perfect) Now, there are zh_TW, zh_CN, zh_HK/MK,
zh_SG/MK four versions in which zh_TW, zh_HK/MK use traditional
Chinese characters and zh_CN, zh_SG/MK use simplified Chinese.

If you reads Chinese, maybe you can take a look here:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E7%B9%81%E7%AE%80%E5%A4%84%E7%90%86

> that are not used for Mandarin. When you want the code to be  unambiguous,
> you should use a code that actually IS unambigious. That would make it
> zh-cmn-Hant and zh-cmn-Hans. Because typically Mandarin is implied when zh
> is used but it is not a given.
Ya. Just for my own understanding, the locale codes currently used are
still zh_CN, zh_TW, ...

> It is however a hopeless code that happens to be conformant to the RFC 4646
> standard.


> On Nov 22, 2007 10:32 AM, Yuan Chao < yuanchao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > On Nov 21, 2007 9:49 PM, Xavier Alvarez <xavi.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I want remind all that the Etoys project in Pootle[1] is a TEST...
> > > not the real thing. If you want to collaborate, please continue
> > > doing so in Launchpad's site[2].
> > Sure. I guess it doesn't harm to put them in TEST too. :)
> >
> > As GerardM pointed out, for most of the case, we only distinguish
> > traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. But we have some slightly
> > variation for each in certain terminologies for different regions.
> > That's why we have zh_CN, zh_TW, zh_HK... IMHO, a quick mapping for
> > zh-HanT(zh_TW, zh_HK) and zh-HanS (zh_CN, zh_SG) seems ok to me.
> >
> >
> >
> > > [1] TEST: https://dev.laptop.org/translate/projects/etoys/
> > > [2] REAL:
> > > https://translations.launchpad.net/etoys/first-deployment/
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Xavier
> >
> >
> > On Nov 21, 2007 9:30 PM, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > Hoi,
> > > I take it you want to indicate simplified or traditional script ? For
> this
> > > zh-Hans and zh-Hant are the appropriate codes. There are other countries
> > > where either script are used.
> > > Thanks,
> > >      Gerard
> >
> >
> > > On Wednesday 21 November 2007 17:19, Yuan Chao wrote:
> > > YC> Hi,
> > > YC>
> > > YC>   Would it be possible to add Chinese language (both zh_TW
> > > YC> and zh_CN) for Pootle Etoys too?
> > > YC>
> > > YC>
> > > YC> On Nov 21, 2007 6:40 PM, Xavier Alvarez
> > > YC> <xavi.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > YC> > Takashi,
> > > YC> >
> > > YC> > A TEST Pootle Etoys project has been created and loaded...
> > > YC> >
> > > YC> > Things to note:
> > > YC> > 1) suggestion / review is disabled
> > > YC> > 2) both anonymous and registered users can translate
> > > YC> > 3) no version control
> > > YC> >
> > > ...snip...
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > XA
> > > =========
> > > Don't Panic!  The Answer is 42
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Yuan Chao
> >
>
>



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Best regards,
Yuan Chao