Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Mingde (Matthew) Zeng" <matthewzmd@posteo.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:55:28 -0400
> 
> 
> >> I have contacts in Taiwan who can tell us.
> 
> Verify with a Taiwan native speaker if you really want to invest more time on this, but I'll be 99.98% sure that he/she won't have a problem with "你好". In fact, Taiwan folks write Traditioanl Chinese as well, but speak a local dialect, which is not of our concern here.
> 
> > But I'd like to reiterate what I said earlier: I would only remove my
> > objections for changing this part of HELLO if I hear from a
> > representative enough group of native Chinese speakers from both sides
> > of the divide that some change will be acceptable to them, and cause
> > no controversies on either side.  With all due respect, people who
> > voiced their opinions in this matter till now cannot be considered
> > such a group.  In particular, none of them stated his/her country of
> > origin and current place of living, nor the cultural group to which he
> > or she belongs, which makes judging the opinions harder.
> 
> Well, I am a native Mandarin speaker from Guangdong China, where a very large portion of the people speaks Cantonese, and I currently live in Canada.

Thanks for the info.