[gui-dev] [limewire jira] Commented: (GUI-15) GUI's Traditional Chinese have some error
[email protected] Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:08:32 -0500 (EST)
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DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AT http://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/GUI-15 ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL BE DISCARDED. The following comment has been added to this issue: Author: Created: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 2:08 PM Body: May be the Chinese translation of the "Chinese" language name is incorrect and this refers to the adjective meaning part of China, and not the "Chinese language". See for example the translation of "Japanese" into Japanese, it is "Nihongo" (romanized, or written with Hiragana or Katakana) with the important suffix "go" refering to the language of "Nihon" (Japan). There's also a Kanji version, where the last ideogram means explicitly "language", and the first two ideographs mean "sunrise" and "land", so "Nihongo" means really "language of the sunrise country". For the Chinese language, there may be some similar ideogram suffix meaning "language", appended after the first two ideograms that mean "middle" and "empire" (China is also named "empire of the middle"; in Chinese language, most countries are designated by such analogies rather than with phonetic proximity). So with three ideograms instead of two to translate the language name, there is no more link to the China mainland. That may be the reason of such message, because the displayed string would really mean: "China (Taiwan)" instead of just "Chinese (Taiwan)". Note that the choice "Chinese (Taiwan)" is incorrect; it should better be "Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau)" or just "Traditional Chinese", because this written form of the Chinese language is spoken ALSO in Southern China and other countries. --------------------------------------------------------------------- View this comment: http://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/GUI-15?page=comments#action_10180 --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the issue: http://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/GUI-15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was generated by JIRA, LimeWire.org's issue tracking system. If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://www.limewire.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa _______________________________________________ gui-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-dev