From kde-i18n-doc  Thu Oct 18 15:31:26 2001
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:31:26 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: Tarball for kde-i18n-2.2.1
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Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2001 08:58 schrieb Dwayne Bailey:
> > ?  :-)  Also, since (zh_HK, zh_MO) are mostly identical to zh_TW, and
> > zh_SG to zh_CN, is there an easy way in KDE 2.2.x to automatically search
> > for substitution if an entry is not found?  Say, for a zh_HK user, if
> > there is a "Name[zh_HK]=" entry, use it; otherwise, use the
> > "Name[zh_TW.Big5]=" entry.  My initial guess is to modify some files in
> > kdelibs-2.2.1/kdecore/ for these special cases.  I heard that KDE 3.0
> > will handle situations like this even better.  :-)
>
> Yes, KDE 3.0 has the ability to choose multiple languages so users can
> fallback to a language closer to theirs than English.  We see a similar
> thing with Xhosa and Zulu (xh, zu) in South Africa.

But for these case in .desktop files it's not yet implemented. Currently it 
only affects a PO file translation. We can't (afaik, if Hans Peter 
implemented it meanwhile, sorry :) load several languages and pick the ones.

Greetings, Stephan