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

Fri Dec 28 10:01:56 MST 2007

Peter,
	I checked it in before the nightly build so it should be there. Let  
me know if it still is not there.
DM

On Dec 28, 2007, at 3:34 AM, peter wrote:

> Did this translation make the last nightly build?
>
> I did not find the Chinese translation in my options menu.
>
> Peter
>
> Yiguang Hu wrote:
>> 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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>>>   1. Chinese, traditional vs simplified (DM Smith)
>>>   2. Re: Submitting Patches  For Chinese Taiwan
>>> zh_TW
>>>      (Chang chia hsiang)
>>>
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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
>>> To: J-Sword Developers Mailing List
>>> <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <648D23FE-E3BF-4299-905F-DF5944CDB757 at yahoo.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII;
>>> format=flowed; delsp=yes
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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
>>> To: J-Sword Developers Mailing List
>>> <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <BAY115-W3FCC1BC456ECDD0B7D84FDA540 at phx.gbl>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's great !!
>>>
>>> Thank you so much.
>>>
>>> jesus love you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://praiseofgod.org
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>> 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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>>>>> http://praiseofgod.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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