On 2/16/08, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2008 8:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dave Miner wrote: > > > >> Screenshot 03: First screen of Indy2 LiveCD > > running in SXDE4, > > > >> selecting keyboard. (This screen has a very > > serious political > > > >> ramification, I have submitted a bug report, > > someone better pay some > > > >> attention, or at least not show Indiana to any > > Chinese officials.) > > > >> > > > > > > > > Thanks for the reminder, I've transferred that > > bug to Bugster so that we > > > > can get kbd -s fixed. > > > > > > I must be missing the bug there - clearly that's a > > list of regional keyboard > > > variants, not national ones, since there are no > > nations of Latin America or > > > French Canada. > > > > The bug here is China's political sensitivities > > regarding Taiwan, that > > and the selection really isn't done in the correct > > way. It's being > > done based on nationality instead of language. > > > > -- > > Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst > > http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > Hi Shawn, > > This problem is actually much more serious than we discussed in our private > mails. As we know, there are two versions of written Chinese languages, > traditional Chinese (繁体中文*， used in Taiwan, Hong Kong & Singapore) and > simplified Chinese (简体中文， used in mainland China). Both are Chinese (中文）. > I have never heard anyone calling the traditional Chinese "Taiwanese" (台湾文）。 > > There is, however, a very obscure (to say the least) "Taiwanese language", > which is a Romanized Taiwanese dialect of the (spoken) Chinese language, see, > e.g.: > > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/taiwanese.htm > > A friend of mine who is a professor at the University of Hawaii, was one of > the creators of the Taiwanese (written) language, but hardly anyone knows of, > or care about, its existence, not to mention any chance of using it, except a > few hard-core pro-Taiwan-independence extremists. Supporting this group is > against the United States policy: > > http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive/2006/Jan/31-671973.html > > I don't think we should even remotely get into a situation where we may be > perceived as taking one political side against another. Fortunately, the > solution to this issue is a no-brainer: the keyboard referred to in Indiana > is definitely no "Taiwanese keyboard" (as I mentioned above, practically no > one knows what it means), it is a Chinese keyboard. It can be used to input > both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. This keyboard was > developed in Taiwan initially for the input of traditional Chinese. But this > is no reason to call it a Taiwanese keyboard, or even a traditional Chinese > keyboard. > > * I was trying to type up traditional Chinese characters here, but Solaris is > so totally screwed up in inputting traditional Chinese characters, I decided > to give up. Typically I switched to SuSE when I have to use traditional > Chinese. > > (As I mentioned some time ago in a separate thread, I took a legal action on > behalf of our client, the national applied research labs of Taiwan, against > the Treasure Department in 1995 because the Patent and Trademark Office > labeled Taiwan "A Province of China". We prevailed in very quickly forcing > the Patent Office to remove this designation. This is the opposite end of > what we are doing in Indiana. Both situations should be avoided. > > It is, of course, unwise to trust what I said. Since I sensed no one in the > developer corps is really familiar with this issue, the only wise way is to > see what others are doing. Novell has a relatively well established sales > force in China. Perhaps someone should look at what SuSE is doing re > keyboard locale name designations. Windows and Mac should also be consulted.)
Excellent write up. At first even I didn't understand your concern, now I do. Thanks. Tao _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
