[Qgis-tr] Working on Traditional Chinese and some problem found

[Mats Elfström]

Hi!
Since QGIS is a global, unbiased effort, I think the flag which represents
China in the UN should be used.

Regards, Mats.E

2016-12-14 5:42 GMT+01:00 Dennis Raylin Chen <b92612009 at gmail.com>:

> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on https://www.transifex.com/
> qgis/
>
>
> Hi list
>
> I'm not here for a fight. Here is a longer explanation
>
> There are several area using Chinese language around the world, and there
> are two different type character sets use for the Chinese language.
>
> I think someone thought as being a Taiwanese is not enough to prove that
> it should use Taiwan Flag as a symbol for Traditional Chinese, because
> Taiwan is not officially recognized by most countries in the world, here is
> the English Wikipedia link for Traditional Chinese characters
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters
>
> You can see that Traditional Chinese is most used in Taiwan and is taught
> in Taiwan school. I think it makes sense to change to Taiwan flag, due to
> the de facto status China does not control Taiwan. And I thought the Open
> Source community does not follow the political de jure status, should use
> the situation in real world.
>
> I think most Taiwanese using QGIS will be mad about the About Translator
> section in QGIS. I will appreciate to change the flag to more appropriate
> one, and also the QGIS users in Taiwan.
>
> Dennis
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on
>> https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> Surely you can be added to the About page .. I heavily rely on
>> messages of translators (or better their respective language
>> coordinators) if they want to be included as I cannot see who is doing
>> all the work in all languages.
>> About the flag - well there is always room for improvement and I dont
>> want to create any conflict here - I always thought language is
>> "called" chinese - so there must be a chinese flag - Like we have the
>> same here in Austria/Germany.
>> Language in austria is (well basically austrian because of some
>> dialects :) )  German and though whole austria is speaking german
>> language we know there will be no austrian flag - so we usually always
>> search for the german language.
>> But if it common in china/taiwan to see the taiwan flag as
>> respresentation for chinese(traditional)- I will change it. (please
>> confirm again)
>>
>> kind regards and thanks for your translations!
>>
>> Werner
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Dennis Raylin Chen <b92612009 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Transifex Webtranslation page for QGIS is on
>> https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > First time here at the list, I'm Dennis from Taiwan, currently working
>> on QGIS Chinese(traditional Chinese) translation. Could I be added on the
>> About page translators list?
>> >
>> > However there is a mistake that I saw: it was using China (PRC) flag as
>> a symbol of Traditional Chinese, it should use Taiwan (ROC) flag due to the
>> fact most Traditional Chinese users are in Taiwan, and China currently does
>> not control Taiwan.
>> >
>> > Here is the Wikipedia page for the flag of Taiwan:
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China
>> > You could find the image here too.
>> >
>> > Hope could be fixed soon, and I am happy to be part of the QGIS family.
>> >
>> > Dennis aka Supaplex
>> >
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