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> On Nov 13, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Christopher Schultz
> <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> All,
>
>> On 11/13/18 10:39, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote:
>>> On 13.11.2018 13:32, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:49 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm aiming to export the translations on a regular basis to the
>>>> Tomcat source code. How regularly will depend on the rate of
>>>> new/updated translations but as a minimum, I'm aiming to get
>>>> any updates into the next Tomcat 9 release.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok. Could you remove "French (MC)" ? No idea where it comes from
>>> but in Monaco they do standard French, and it's too small anyway
>>> :D
>>>
>>
>> You could add "French (B)" though. There's more of us than
>> Monégasques, and we have some words all our own, for instance in
>> the numbers category. I'm sure the Swiss would agree.
>>
>> Just kidding..
>
> Here's the thing: lots of countries have their own dialects of various
> languages, but the root language is really the same. Nobody in Quebec
> is going to read "standard" French and misunderstand "our boat is
> sinking and we are all going to die" for "we are performing an
> existential thought-experiment"[1].
>
> If the "standard" translation is done well, we don't need fr-* where *
> is every country where the French language is spoken. Imagine fr-US-NO
> where "NO" is "New Orleans" which speaks ... an odd assortment of
> pidgin languages that sound kind of French-y. We don't need an
> explosion of translations. There is no need to have an en-BR, en-US
> and eu-AU when simply "en" will work.
>
> I'm sure that's the case for most other languages in the world.
>
> There is a significant argument for zh-CN and zh-TW/zh-HK because
> mainland China almost exclusively uses Simplifies Chinese while TW/HK
> still use Traditional, and there really is a big difference, there.
> But I think that's an exception to the general rule.
The others are pt and pt-BR.
>
> When providing a translation for a particular language, try not to use
> colloquialisms that will only be understood by the people who live in
> your own city. This could easily happen in English if the Brits all
> used British slang for everything, which is completely indecipherable
> to Americans, etc. But it really shouldn't come up very often. There
> is always a clear way of saying something without resorting to slang.
>
> If you are tempted to use slang, remember that not everyone will be
> able to read it. And if English is the primary language from which
> these translations will come, then using slang there will probably
> turn into something which (literally) does not translate well into
> another language. So, stick to standard, boring language, here.
>
> - -chris
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
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