Re: [PATCH v3] localedata: Add Minguo calendar support to zh_TW [BZ #24293]

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>]

7.03.2019 10:35 Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 2019/3/6 上午7:45, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> > [...]
> > Do I see correctly that the content of "era" is the same in all locales?
> > Please forgive me my ignorance, is this correct despite these are
> > different
> > languages?
> 
> zh_TW is locale for the writing system of Traditional Chinese in Taiwan,
> while the others are for different pronunciation systems. They are
> reflecting different aspects (or variants) of the same language.

I don't think I understand this paragraph but I believe that you mean
that this is correct despite the language difference.  Due to my lack
of knowledge about Chinese language I am unable to verify this.

> I
> believe most users uses zh_TW and very few uses the others. The others
> can be useful for a TTS system, though.

That few people use a language is not a reason not to provide the
correct translation.  But that's irrelevant since (IIUC) the patch
provides correct locale data for all these languages.

> I'll correct the issues and send next version shortly.

Thank you, I will move to the new version.

Regards,

Rafal