From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: ludo@gnu.org, Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Guix-devel <guix-devel-bounces+me=tobias.gr@gnu.org>,
help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Language tag for traditional Chinese (was: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:05:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3054837749937e00b489fb23a76a206@tobias.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efkyewrh.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludo', Alex,
On 2018-03-05 9:45, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>> The locale should be zh_TW (for Taiwan), zh_HK (for Hong Kong) and
>> zh_mo
>> (for Macau). Should I use a let to avoid duplication?
>
> As long as the above sentence is intelligible to people from all these
> regions, it’s enough to write “zh” I guess? (It’s meant to be a
> language tag for humans to read, not an actual locale specification.)
I'd definitely avoid that. For better or worse, ‘zh’ is assumed to equal
‘zh_CN’ or simplified Chinese.
If a single code for traditional Chinese is required, Wikipedia has this
to say:
‘The World Wide Web Consortium recommends the use of the language tag
zh-Hant as a language attribute value and Content-Language value to
specify web-page content in Traditional Chinese.’[0]
In practice, the locale ‘zh_TW’ is often used instead. For example:
‘The standard locale for simplified Chinese is zh_CN. The standard
locale for traditional Chinese is zh_TW.’[1]
...but I don't like that very much. I'd go with the W3C, but I'm not
exactly a native speaker. Alex?
Kind regards,
T G-R
[0]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters#Computer_encoding
[1]:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4892372/language-codes-for-simplified-chinese-and-traditional-chinese
Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-05 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-02 16:02 Posts in languages other than English on help-guix? Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-02 16:47 ` ng0
2018-03-02 20:07 ` Andreas Enge
2018-03-02 20:23 ` Catonano
2018-03-03 11:00 ` Catonano
2018-03-02 20:03 ` Andreas Enge
2018-03-02 20:31 ` ng0
2018-03-03 10:00 ` Andreas Enge
2018-03-03 10:37 ` ng0
2018-03-03 15:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-05 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-05 9:42 ` julien lepiller
2018-03-05 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-05 15:22 ` julien lepiller
2018-03-10 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-19 15:20 ` julien lepiller
2018-03-19 16:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-03 10:45 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-03 10:52 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-03 11:48 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-03-02 20:32 ` Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-02 22:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-02 22:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-03 10:27 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-03 14:50 ` Marco van Hulten
2018-03-03 20:06 ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-04 8:39 ` Marco van Hulten
2018-03-03 18:35 ` Leo Famulari
2018-03-03 20:24 ` Alex Vong
2018-03-05 8:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-05 15:05 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2018-03-06 12:35 ` Language tag for traditional Chinese Alex Vong
2018-03-07 21:34 ` Andreas Enge
2018-03-07 22:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-07 9:04 ` Alex Vong
2018-03-05 0:17 ` Posts in languages other than English on help-guix? Eric Bavier
2018-03-07 9:46 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-08 20:56 ` Alex Kost
2018-03-10 10:39 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-10 15:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-10 15:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-17 18:48 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-17 20:19 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-19 16:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-22 3:22 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-26 12:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
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