Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:46:11 +0800 From: Foxfair Hu <foxfair@news.ks.edu.tw> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RU-DOC] FDP Directory Reorganization Message-ID: <373F74E31E0.FC2CFOXFAIR@news.ks.edu.tw>
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:So it becomes something like
: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/*
: articles/*
: ja_JP.EUC/books/*
: articles/*
: zh_BN.EUC/books/*
It should be "zh_CN.EUC", CN -> China(Mainland of China).
: articles/*
: zh_TW.BIG5/books/*
: articles/*
:and so on instead.
:
:Two questions.
:First, what do the _JP, _BN, and _TW signify? Could they be dropped from
:the name? I realise that the locale/ directory they allow you to
:differentiate between "Chinese (China)" and "Chinese (Taiwan)". But is
:that distinction useful for the documentation?
:
zh_CN.EUC ,aka., Simplified Chinese, has a very different character
set with zh-TW.BIG5 , aka., Traditional Chinese. The main problem is
Chinese people use two kinds of Chinese words for years, so now it is
not just the encoding problem, but also the problem of regional
culture and community.
For example, this English word "memory", use Roma-spelling method
under Traditional Chinese we call it "ji yi ti"(°O¾ÐÅé), but under Simplified
Chinese it is called by "nei tsuen"(ÄÚ´æ). As anyone can see and
understand , they are the whole different words. :<
So in this case, we are *NOT* just like Kuriyama-san said "maintain three
contently same but different encoding texts in CVS repository". Those
two different types of encoding methods derive from regional culture
and community, and should be divided into the way they used to be.
My suggestion(This is our discussion of FreeBSD Chinese Doc-Project
mailing list, too) is use zh.BIG5 && zh.GB, not zh.EUC. The suffix
"GB" stands for GB{_1988-80, _2312-80}(ref : RFC 1345), and the prefix
"zh" means "Jung Hua". That's meaningful for us.
Sorry for responsing late, I have a busy week. :)
Cheers,
-Foxfair
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