Thank you for your reply.
I think it's very good.
There is one more question. I'm wondering if there is a mailing-list or
somewhere else to communicate about contributing on AudacityWiki, or I can
just put a message with ToDo-s?
James Crook <[email protected]>于2017年11月12日周日 下午5:37写道：
> Thanks!
>
> I agree that flags do not correspond exactly to languages. They are
> though widely used, and they do work a lot of the time. Your language
> selector though looks more professional, and it doesn't have the
> problems that flags have. We have not had the problem before, but now
> that we do, I think that we should change to yours.
>
> +1 on making the change.
>
> We have a do-ocracy which means that 'doer decides' in a lot of cases
> where it is not all that clear what to do. So if you want to make the
> change now, you can. However....
>
> It would mean changing translation banners in a lot of places. See for
> example where the German flag is used. Over 100 pages:
>
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/File:Flag_of_Germany_small.png
>
>
> So I suggest that for now you only use your new template on your new
> zh_CN pages. On the English version of the FAQ and on any other page
> you translate, I suggest that for now you use both the flags and your
> new template.
>
> Later on we will look at finding a way to automate the update of
> language selection banners to use your template so that it does not have
> to be done by hand. That won't happen until after 2.2.1 is released.
>
> How does that sound?
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your work on getting the FAQ into Chinese, and for
> working on the detail of flags to get it right. It's appreciated.
>
>
>
> --James.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/12/2017 3:49 AM, mkpoli wrote:
> > There is a try.
> >
> > https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Template:I18n_box
> >
> >
> > mkpoli <[email protected]>于2017年11月10日周五 上午6:01写道：
> >
> >> This is an issue found when I'm translating FAQ.
> >>
> >> *Apparently, languages, scripts and nations are not one-to-one
> >> corresponding.*
> >> e.g
> >>
> >> 1. 23 languages in India.
> >> 2. Simplified Chinese (script) in Standard Mandarin (Putonghua,
> >> language) in mainland China
> >> 3. Traditional Chinese (script) in Standard Mandarin (Guoyu,
> language)
> >> in Taiwan
> >>
> >> So if mark a language as a national flag, it will risk confusing and
> >> potential political problems.
> >>
> >> *Should Audacity provide country-specified contents, so that it can use
> >> flags?*
> >> I don't think so. Audacity is a tool that can be used around the world
> >> with no (or maybe a little?) confusion by area.
> >>
> >> *What about marking them in English, like English, German, Chinese
> >> (Simplified), Hebrew....etc.?*
> >> It's better than flags, but not best, since:
> >>
> >> 1. If there is someone finding difficulty reading English, they may
> >> also have problems finding the English names of their language,
> >> 2. It's unnecessary for an English speaker to know about those
> words,
> >> if they want, they can go to Wikipedia.
> >> 3. It's unnecessary for a developer. They can draw an image of
> >> multilingual stats by looking at codes and file structure.
> >>
> >> *What is the best practice?*
> >> See those links:
> >>
> >> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> >> 2.
> >>
> http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/best-practice-for-presenting-languages/
> >>
> >> *How-to, or my advice.*
> >> In Audacity wiki, current multilingual system is using links to the page
> >> as flags, like this
> >>
> >> - [[Image:Flag_of_Croatia_small.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/hr|ČP:O
> >> Audacityju]]
> >> - [[Image:FrenchFlagSmall.png|link=FAQ:About Audacity/fr|FAQ : À
> >> propos d'Audacity]]
> >> - [[Image:Flag of Germany small.png|link=FAQ:About
> >> Audacity/de|FAQ:Über Audacity]]
> >> - [[Image:Flag_of_italy_small.png|link=FAQ:About
> >> Audacity/it|FAQ:Circa Audacity]]
> >> - [[Image:Flag_of_Portugal_small.png|link=FAQ:About
> >> Audacity/pt|FAQ:Sobre o Audacity]]
> >> - [[Image:Flag of Spain small.png|link=FAQ:About
> Audacity/es|FAQ:Sobre
> >> Audacity]]
> >> - [[Image:Flag of China small.png|link=FAQ:About
> >> Audacity/zh_CN|FAQ:About Audacity]]
> >>
> >> I think it is possible to batch processed to local names, directly.
> >> Maybe something like a box like in Mediawiki (link:
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:About).
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
>
>
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