[jsword-devel] jsword-devel Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

Thu Dec 27 14:08:56 MST 2007

DM,
Your understanding of Chinese is correct. 
There are two major Chinese writing systems:
Simplified (GB 2312) or Traditional (big5). It does
not matter what dialet the user use, as long as he can
read Simplified chinese, he should be able speak
Mandarin. Or if he read traditional chinese, he most
likely is from Taiwan.
Both mandarin and cantonese from China should be able
to read perferct simplified chinese, and knows most of
the traditional Chinese.
On the other hand, folks from Taiwan most read the
traditional Chinese and should know most of simplified
chinese and may have trouble to understand some of the
simplified chinese.

For user to select which version of Chinese, try to
use GB_2312 encoding for simplified chinese (zh_CN
locale), and big5 encoding for traditional chinese
(zh_TW locale).

Yiguang 

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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:25:07 -0500
> From: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [jsword-devel] Chinese, traditional vs
> simplified
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> I have just checked in simplified Chinese
> translation for Bible  
> Desktop (BD) and JSword. Chang provided
> zh_TW.properties files, which  
> I saved as is and also as zh.properties (i.e. the
> default for Chinese)  
> I have also added Chinese as a translation choice in
> Options/ 
> Preferences. In doing this, I have made the list of
> supported  
> translations a simple text file, called
> translations.txt.
> 
> I'm don't know Chinese (even though my son, Brad, is
> learning Mandarin  
> and his wife, Sandy,  is Chinese from Taiwan), but I
> am vaguely aware  
> that there are two forms of Chinese script:
> Traditional and  
> simplified. And that there are some variations of
> the traditional  
> script (e.g. Hong Kong) And also that Cantonese is
> different from  
> Mandarin. And that there are other dialects too.
> 
> I may have misunderstood, but I am under the
> impression that the  
> script is fairly unifying across the different
> Chinese languages/ 
> dialects. That is if one person, speaking Cantonese,
> cannot understand  
> another speaking Mandarin, that one writing
> Cantonese can understand  
> another writing Mandarin as they would write it the
> same way but would  
> read it differently.
> 
> I would like some help to correct my understanding
> where it falls  
> short or is just plain wrong. I think we need to
> figure out how one  
> would provide both a traditional and a simplified
> translation of BD  
> and how one would provide a way to choose between
> them.
> 
> Currently in BibleDesktop we obtain a translation
> one of two ways.  
> Either we take the default, which is based upon the
> user's locale,  
> consisting of language and of country. The second
> way is to go into  
> Options (called Preferences on the Mac) and choose a
> language. At the  
> moment we don't support choosing a country.
> 
> In His Service,
> 	DM Smith
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:56:10 +0800
> From: Chang chia hsiang <prayer at praiseofgod.org>
> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] Submitting Patches  For
> Chinese Taiwan
> 	zh_TW
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> 
> That's great !!
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> jesus love you.
> 
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> ----------------------------------------
> > From: dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
> > To: jsword-devel at crosswire.org
> > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:45:28 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] Submitting Patches 
> For Chinese Taiwan zh_TW
> > 
> > Dear Chang chia hsaing,
> > 
> > Thank you very much. As you noticed posts greater
> than 100K are held  
> > for approval. No problem as I will get the mail
> directly from the  
> > server but won't "approve" it so that the list
> stays small. Your  
> > posting images to an image server is the best way
> to go. I'll let you  
> > know if I have any problem with your patches.
> > 
> > Serving Him Together,
> > 	DM Smith
> > 
> > On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Chang chia hsiang
> wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> Dear jsword_devel:
> >>
> >>
> >> Bibledesktop path for zh_TW (Chinese Taiwan),
> >>
> >> zip include screenshot.png and patch.txt,
> >>
> >> test it and then check it in,please.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My platform : Debian linux + eclipse +java 15/14
> >>
> >>
> >>
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