[Mageia-i18n] mailing lists for i18n language teams

Mon Jan 10 02:11:29 CET 2011

Hi,
+
+Michael Scherer 於 0100-01-10 寫道：
+> Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 08:33 +0800, Franklin Weng a écrit :
+> > In Taiwan, the official language is Traditional Chinese (zh-TW).  (
+> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Mandarin , I think).
+> > 
+> >  Taiwanese_Hokkien is the most popular dialect here, but not for our
+> > 
+> > reading/writing system.
+> 
+> So there is a language for reading, and another one to speak ?
+
+I should say, Taiwanese (dialect) are common in speaking, but it does not have 
+its own word.  Mostly use Chinese word to present, or use Romanization to 
+present its pronounciation.  
+
+> > Also, in mainland China they use simplified Chinese (zh-CN).  So there
+> > will be a lot of troubles if we just use i18n-zh as our mailing list
+> > name.
+> 
+> Indeed.
+> 
+> > If Mageia decided to use language names as mailing list name instead of
+> > using region names, we need to use
+> > 
+> > i18n-zh-tw at ml.mageia
+> > 
+> > so that we can distinguish from i18n-zh-cn and (probably) i18n-zh-hk,
+> > i18n-zh-sg, ... etc.  You may not know that, even we both use traditional
+> > Chinese, in many cases zh-TW and zh-HK are using different words for the
+> > same thing.
+> 
+> Well, we do the contrary in french.
+> 
+> Some people use "kids" to mean "offspring" while I use it for "painful
+> small source of noise" /o\
+
+Well, the development of language / culture are quite special in China, Hong 
+Kong and Taiwan.  That would be a very, very long story...
+ 
+> > Now, the question is "when you translate something, what is the name of
+> > 
+> > > the file that you modify", ie what .po. Or how are the lists/group
+> > > called in other project ?
+> > 
+> > zh_TW (in KDE and Gnome)
+> 
+> so let it be i18n-zh_tw ( like i18N-pt_br ).
+> 
+> I am not sure that email is case sensitive, afaik, it shouldn't , and so
+> using lowercase is nicer ( on a typographic level ).
+> 
+> I will create a 2nd batch of ml once the first one will work fine.
+
+i18n-zh_tw is okay for us.
+
+I'll inform our users for this.
+
+
+Thanks,
+Franklin
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