[Bf-docboard] Language code for Traditional Chinese

[Cheng-Chia Tseng]

Thank you all for the recommendation, I will wait for the new system. :)

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Francesco Siddi <francesco.siddi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello there,
> thanks for your interest in adding a new translation.
> As Bastien mentioned, we are undergoing some changes in the way the
> documentation is handled. This is happening quite slowly, but there might
> be an update on this list very soon.
>
> I recommend to wait with new translations until the new system has been
> evaluated.
>
> Francesco
>
>
> On 22 Jun 2014 at 21:51:52, Bastien Montagne (montagne29 at wanadoo.fr)
> wrote:
>
> Adding ZH_TW is not an issue in theory. *But* we are about to switch
> completely how our manual is handled (like going to something more
> 'offline', some sphinx doc), so I’m not sure starting a new translation
> just right now makes much sense… :/
>
> Anyway, real web managers should know better here! ;)
>
> Bastien
> Le 22/06/2014 16:23, Cheng-Chia Tseng a écrit :
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 12:07 PM, 罗聪翼 <congcong009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chia,
>>
>> I highly agree that there should give a zh_tw language code for
>> blenderwiki while there do only exist a zh_cn page(
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/ZH/Main_Page ). People in Hong Kong or
>> Taiwan could read and understand simple Chinese but many culuture
>> understanding will be more connivence in traditional Chinese. We have the
>> zh_tw and zh_cn i18n translation (
>> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-translations/branches/) for blender
>> so it is also necessary to create a zh_tw page for blenderwiki.
>>
>>
> Thanks you for your support, Ethan! :)
>
> Is their any opinion from wiki site maintainers? Or I will think that
> might be a "yes" for my ZH-TW proposal.
>
> I found there is a Language List dropbox in upper middle of blender wiki.
> Do I need to do anything to make "Chinese (Traditional)" listed too?
>
>
>
>>  Good job Chia and it is really happy to see someone would step out to
>> support traditional Chinese!
>> Cheers,
>>  罗聪翼/Ethan Luo
>> M: (86)139-8210-2445(GMT+8)
>> @congcong009 #twitter/facebook/新浪微博
>> Blender基金会认证培训师/BFCT
>>
>>  在 2014年6月22日，11:36，Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com> 写道：
>>
>>   Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am reading the "Translation_Guide" to see how can I contribute to my
>> native language, Traditional Chinese or Chinese (Taiwan).
>>
>> There is a paragraph about "Page Name" describing one should add language
>> code between namespace and page name. I want to find out if my language is
>> listed or not, and find there is a  List of ISO country/language codes
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes> link in
>> "Reference" part. I have read the ISO 639-1 list, but found only "zh" is
>> listed.
>>
>> However, "zh" or "Chinese" here is a macrolanguage which covers strongly
>> divergent dialects and closely related languages. For example, there are
>> two main variant of Chinese characters styles for Mandarin (official
>> dialect of Chinese), one is simplified Chinese used in China, and the other
>> is traditional Chinese used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
>>
>> In practice, we use "language_code-country_code/region_code" instead to
>> represent languages in free software localization workflow (eg. fsf
>> projects, GNOME, KDE, Ubuntu... and even blender itself). Simplified
>> Chinese uses "zh_CN" while traditional Chinese uses "zh_TW".
>>
>> I am wondering if I can use "ZH-TW" as my language code or not in
>> blednerwiki translaiton? Does anyone know anything about this?
>>
>> Thanks! :)
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> by Cheng-Chia Tseng
>>   _______________________________________________
>> Bf-docboard mailing list
>> Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bf-docboard mailing list
>> Bf-docboard at blender.org
>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> by Cheng-Chia Tseng
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-docboard mailing listBf-docboard at blender.orghttp://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-docboard mailing list
> Bf-docboard at blender.org
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-docboard mailing list
> Bf-docboard at blender.org
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-docboard
>
>


-- 
Cheers,
by Cheng-Chia Tseng
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/attachments/20140623/3ac279ad/attachment.htm