[Libreoffice] [PUSHED-3-4][PUSHED[3-5][REVIEW] 3-5, 3-5-0, 3-4 corrupted Indic characters and crash under Windows fdo#44208, fdo#45107

[Christophe Strobbe]

At 17:59 26-1-2012, Andras Timar wrote:
>Hi Caolan,
>
>2012/1/26 Caolán McNamara 
><<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice>caolanm 
>at redhat.com>:
> >
> > We should in master generally shrink the rest of the tags down to the
> > minimum correct lang-tag , e.g. hu-HU to hu, but zh-CN remains as zh-CN.
> > And I'm confident that the zh-CN/zh-TW/pa-IN font entries currently
> > should work for the windows UI fallback lists seeing as those langpacks
> > are language_Territory.
>
>In fact hu-HU – and other European languages with country code – seem
>to be unnecessary there. They have not been working under Windows for
>ages  (or ever), yet nobody complained. :) Some of them look identical
>to English node. I think we should list only those locales in VCL.xcu
>that require special fonts. Even empty nodes seem to be unnecessary,
>eg.
>     <node oor:name="af" oor:op="replace">
>     </node>
>
>We have zh-cn, zh-tw, zh-hk, and zh-sg, but zh-mo is missing, that is
>also a supported locale. I think we need to add it, LibreOffice tried
>to read zh-MO node when I selected Chinese (Macau) as default locale
>and/or default document language.

Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC in 1997 and 
Macau in 1999. Cantonese (as spoken language) and 
Traditional Chinese characters are still the de 
facto standards in both places, as far as I know. 
Singapore apparently uses Singaporean Mandarin 
and switched to simplified Chinese characters in 1976.
If there are differences between the zh-hk, zh-mo 
and zh-tw localisations, is this due to different 
translators or to differences between computing 
terminology in these three geographic areas? (I'm 
sure there are differences in vocabulary in these 
three areas, but I don't know if they affect computing terminology.)

Best regards,

Christophe


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