Re: etc/HELLO: On Chinese and Cantonese

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

FWIW, I think Eric is also a literary translator of Chinese.

-- 
Basil