#18419: Language code is not correct for Chinese
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Reporter: Olli Wang | Owner: nobody
<olliwang@…> | Status: new
Type: Bug | Version: 1.4
Component: | Resolution:
Internationalization | Triage Stage:
Severity: Normal | Unreviewed
Keywords: i18n, chinese, zh | Needs documentation: 0
Has patch: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 1 |
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Comment (by Olli Wang <olliwang@…>):
After I dig into the source code of Django. I found it may have some
issues to adapt the new standard. The first is the conversion between
local and language code. Locale is in the format of ll_CC, so for example,
the "zh_TW" locale can be converted to the "zh-tw" language code. But as
the new standard, language code for Traditional Chinese is "zh-Hant",
which is not possible to converted to the locale in ll_CC format because
"Hant" is not a country.
The second issue is country-specific codes should fallback to new standard
if not available. For example, currently most browsers only use "zh-tw",
"zh-cn", "zh-sg", "zh-hk" in the "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" field. In such
situation, Django should convert "zh-tw" and "zh-hk" to "zh-Hant" and
convert "zh-cn" and "zh-sg" to "zh-Hans". This should be done only if the
request one ("zh-tw", "zh-hk", "zh-cn", "zh-sg") is not set in the
django.conf.LANGUAGES setting.
The last part is Django should merge these translations. For example, if a
browser request a "zh-tw" language. Django should merge both "zh-tw" and
"zh-Hant" translation files.
Chinese is my mother language. Please free feel to ask me questions if you
are still confusing.
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