[sword-devel] Simplified Chinese locale

[Chris Little]

On 3/23/2010 7:17 PM, Nic Carter wrote:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I was recently given a Chinese locale for SWORD with the books of the
> Bible in Simplified Chinese.  Currently we only have Traditional
> Chinese in SVN (actually, the current one is zh_TW-utf8.conf, meaning
> it's for Taiwan, but it's simply a Traditional Chinese translation)
> but Simplified Chinese is actually the official Chinese (as in
> "China") writing. Anyway, enough boring you about Simplified vs
> Traditional, I've attached a Simplified Chinese locale (named
> zh_CN-utf8.conf, meaning it's for China, but . . .) that can be used
> by other front-ends&/or thrown into SVN.  :)

I've committed the zh_CN locale and mirrored it and the zh_TW locale to 
new files zh_Hans and zh_Hant, which use the correct locale naming 
convention.


> Thanks, ybic nic...  :)
>
> ps: at what stage do we want to start updating these to include
> apocryphal books?  I only just thought of this, after I got the
> Simplified locale...........!

There's nothing stopping adding them now, and the sooner they are added, 
the better.

--Chris