[geeklog-translations] UTF-8 Code files

[Samuel Stone]

Hi Dirk,

Including all 4 would be a better idea.  Unicode is now preferred
because of multi-lingual exchangeability with Western languages and now
almost all new Chinese software that came out in 2003 use Unicode.
Having all 4 would at least provide backward compatibility.

By beautifying, do you mean the look of name itself?  I wondered about
that too.  Average users will not know what UTF-8 is.  How about just
name it straight forwardly as "Jan" and "Fan" or "Simplified" and
"Traditional", or even "Sim" and "Trad"?  As long as the installer
himself know that's Unicode, that's enough.

Regarding other languages in utf-8 that I submitted before.  I do have
English version for my sites because they need to mix English with
Chinese.  I am glad that you remember I submitted once before.  Since I
wasn't informed why it wasn't approved, I thought I must have stepped on
someone's toe in messing up with their translations.  Later I realized
that it must be because I didn't archive them.

I can definitely help in converting files of other languages to UTF-8 to
make Geeklog switchable between Asian and European languages. I love GL
and would be very happy if I can be useful.

If you agree, I will start submitting UTF-8 files for other languages
that I am able to convert successfully.

Sam



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From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
To: <geeklog-translations at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-translations] Comment on Chinese Translations
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:56:30 +0100
Organization: Terra Software Systems
Reply-To: geeklog-translations at lists.geeklog.net

Sam,

>Thanks for packaging the two Chinese translations in GB and Big5 codes.

>From my experience, these codes have much limitations when used with 
>Geeklog.  I had to convert them to Unicode(UTF-8) on my sites.  Unicode

>is replacing these codes and much flexible in usage.  I suggest that we

>package the unicode version for Chinese translations in the future 
>because it works better with GL.

I have no experience or knowledge with asian languages, so I wouldn't
know. The two original files were sent in by native speakers. They
seemed to work, so I included them. I guess it wouldn't hurt to include
all 4 variants, at least for a while?

I noticed that Geeklog's beautifying attempts (in the preferences)
failed with your UTF-8 files: "Chinese (Fan_utf-8)" and "Chinese
(Jan_utf-8)" don't look to good (and onyl differ in one character). I
could attempt to get rid of the underscore and use an uppercase 'U':
"Chinese (Fan Utf-8)" ... Not much better. Any ideas?

Also, I seem to remember that you uploaded some other UTF-8 language
files on geeklog.net but I never approved them since you uploaded them
as .php files, which are a bit of a pain to handle with the File
Management plugin (you have to approve and immediately withdraw them,
then pack them manually and update the information manually, too). Are
you planning to update those for 1.3.9, too?

bye, Dirk


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