Martin von Loewis wrote:
Not sure what mailman is doing, however, either appears to be wrong, based on the following rationale:
- a locale/catalog should not, per se, be based on the encoding. Instead, at run-time, the program should convert from one encoding to another. Is it true that big5 and gb can be converted forth and back for all practical purposes?
- The locales zh_TW and zh_CN may differ, but the catalogs should *only* differ if the translations are actually different. There is no point in duplicating work if the Chinese and the Taiwanese translator come up with the same translation (perhaps in a different encoding).
If you want to put the encoding into a locale, it normally goes after the country, i.e. zh_TW.big5 and zh_CN.gb; other combinations should also be possible, like zh_TW.gb or zh_CN.UTF-8.
Usally we use zh_TW.Big5, zh_CN.GB2312 and zh_CN.GB18030 if put the encoding into a locale. Best Regards Max