From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: matthewzmd@posteo.net, ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:44:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18F2B032-D25C-4347-A0EB-74EFDFBFB180@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wnzil7ki.fsf@gnu.org>
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> AFAIR, there are some non-trivial aspects here, some of them political
> and even ideological. There's PRC and there's ROC (a.k.a. Taiwan),
> and I'm not sure what will each group say about the proposed changes.
>
> So unless we have a representative group of Chinese speakers from both
> camps (traditional and simplified), and they agree on some change
> without any controversies, I'd rather not touch this ticking bomb with
> a 3-mile stick. The current text might not be 100% accurate, but it
> has been there for many years. I'd rather not risk causing a
> diplomatic incident by a change in Emacs.
Indeed, many people are (unreasonably) sensitive on that area. (Of course, Cantonese is spoken in HonKong, not Taiwan, so the proposed change aren’t really related to Taiwan, but still.)
Yuan
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 6:25 etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese Kai Ma
2020-10-22 6:45 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 11:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 15:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-22 15:58 ` Werner LEMBERG
2020-10-22 15:44 ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2020-10-22 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 20:37 ` Karl Fogel
2020-10-23 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 7:55 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-23 10:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 11:16 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-23 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-22 23:03 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-10-22 15:46 ` Yuan Fu
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