Re: Different Chinese

Boyuan Yang <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:43:47 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.www,gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
Organization	Debian Project
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

在 2022-05-12四的 08:10 +0200，Laura Arjona Reina写道：
> Hello all
> 
> 
> El 11 de mayo de 2022 15:10:26 CEST, DU Haoran <[email protected]> escribió:
> > Hi,
> > According to the link, the first "Chinese" is zh-CN and the second one is zh-TW.
> 
> 
> Thanks. I guess Sebul's question implicitly has a request for us to display the Chinese variant in the web page.
> 
> I've had a look and I believe the issue comes because in /english/doc/manuals.def we remove the second part of the name of the locale:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/blob/master/english/doc/manuals.defs#L92
> 
> This is fine for our current status of Portuguese translations (in the website there is only the Brazilian variant and we display "Portuguese") but not fine for Chinese
> because we usually have more than one variant.
> 
> I will try to do some local tests omiting this line and see the build result or maybe add code to not to remove the variant part in the case of cn locales, but I guess the
> manuals.def is used in several other web pages so better to see the side effects of the change in local tests prior to commit changes. If anybody has time or better idea
> please go ahead.
> 
> CC'ing debian-doc for the case they know better or find the time to do tests and fix this before I can come back to this.
> 

I finally had time to look into it and the fix is currently online as
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/023899a8d271b59a952908a0e9a6c8f09e5c63a9 .

I don't think there will be side-effects. But if there are any regressions, please
feel free to let me know.

Best,
Boyuan Yang

> > ________________________________
> > From: sebuls <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 7:00:01 AM
> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Different Chinese
> > 
> > Hi.
> > <https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals.en.html#quick-reference>https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals.en.html#quick-reference
> > shows two Chinese.
> > Chinese: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF]
> > Chinese: [HTML] [plain text] [PDF]
> > One is zh-cn and the other is zh-tw.
> > How to distinguish ?
> > 
> > 
> > [
> > https://confirm.mail.kakao.com/v1/users/sebuls%40kakao%2Ecom/cmails/20220511080001%2EG1u-k_I5SAaNJuOGQ3hZoQ%40sebuls%2Ekakao%2Ecom/recipients/debian-www%40lists%2Edebian%2E
> > org]

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