Hi Andrew, I think we should respect the opinions from who are actually using the lists, so I forward this mail to the lists.
2008/4/30 Andrew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear folks, > > Foka went on IRC and ask for merge debian-chinese-big5 and > debian-chinese-gb into one mailing list. Please check the log for > details or read these(I copied from my log) below: > > 01:56 < foka> 我最近有個想法：如果把 debian-chinese-big5 和 > debian-chinese-gb > 二合為一，大家看法如何？ :-) > 01:57 < aguai> foka: 不懂？ > 01:57 < paulliu> 唔...為啥要做這件事??..:P > 01:57 < paulliu> aguai, 那是兩個 mailing list > 01:58 < foka> paulliu, 是這樣的：現在都是 UTF-8 年代了，也不再存在以前 > Big5、GB2312 郵件亂碼的問題了。 > 01:58 < paulliu> 嗯, 的確...不過我是這麼想的...其實那個 big5 的意思應該是 > chinese-traditional > 01:59 < paulliu> 雖然大家都是中國人...不過繁體跟簡體..還是會有一些閱讀上 > 的困擾.. > 02:01 < paulliu> 不過, debian-chinese-big5 沒有甚麼 traffic 就是了.. > 02:01 < paulliu> 當然這只是我的看法而已啦.. > 02:01 < paulliu> 我是覺得, 繁體中文跟簡體中文, 有時是該分開的... > 02:02 < foka> 其實整體來說還好；我認識好多台灣來的朋友，很快熟識簡體字 > 了。大陸朋友看繁體字，倒也不是問題，只是寫不出來而已。 > 02:02 < paulliu> 是可以看的懂, 但是我自己的經驗是...偶爾要猜... > 02:03 < foka> paulliu, 呵呵，正好互相學習。 :-) > 02:03 < paulliu> 也許簡體中文猜中意思的機率是 9x%, 日文漢字 4x%...... > > Debian do have lists for different languages. I think it's easier for > support our users. Cause they can use their mother language to ask > question and got answer by the mother language. We have separately lists > because long time ago, we have encoding difference problem on big5 and > gb2312, so that we have two lists for Chinese. > > But my opinion now Debian is a global community, it is not specfic for > any nation or racism. Who use traditional or simplified Chinese are > equal participant. > > But everyone can has opinion. Paulliu said that traditional and > simplified Chinese are all Chinese, which I agreed. And Paulliu also > think traditional and simplified Chinese should be separate. > > However the point I concerned is our users support and free software > community. > > So I'd like to ask, what's you guys' opinion: > Does our community only limited in Taiwan or China? > Do you guys agree people from over the world can be also part of Debian > community? > You guys prefer to do the user support together or separately, and why? > > Please give your valuable opinion. > > Kindest regards, > > -Andrew > -- ~ Kanru Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'v' http://stu.csie.ncnu.edu.tw/~kanru.96/ // \\ GnuPG-Key ID: 365CC7A2 /( )\ Fingerprint: 3278 DFB4 BB28 6E8C 9E1F 1ECB B1B7 5B5F 365C C7A2 ^`~'^
