On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:17:59 +0800 Wouter van Marle
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> > What is your website address? I think if Enlightenment.org consists of
> > mostly static pages, you can mirror it, or you can make a mirror site
> > like enlightenment.cn (this domain is not registered, I checked. I can
> > register it.)
>
>
> Falling off-topic: You may have a hard time registering
> "Enlightenment.cn" in China. Enlightenment is not only a Buddhist term,
> it carries some more political charge. That's why I think China blocks
> "enlightenment.org". It's not a country that would want their people
> enlightened (they even try to keep Hong Kong down! Not that that really
> seems to work here...), and their track record on political issues is
> not exactly great. Then they probably block websites more on
> name/topic/keyword than actual content, as that saves them a lot of
> work.
just a point: maybe someone should point out they are blocking a site that is
non political and all about software? china is making a big thing of pushing
linux to be used there and blocking sites that are development "portals" for
what is primarily linux based software is to their detriment. i personally would
like more chinese people to use E and maybe contribute later with translations,
internationalization etc.
i have gone to effort now to support utf-8 and internationalisation and i am
learning japanese, so to a large extent i can solve the underlying problems
chinese localisation will suffer by virtual of solving japanese, but i can't
help with things like translation files etc. this isn't an immediate issue, but
in the long term i'td be nicer to harness that vast population china has and get
some help in supporting their language (and for that matter - what the hell is
the chinese input system? japanese is complex enough! :):) )
anyway = so maybe its worth finding the appropriate authorities and pointing
this out asking them to take a look. i don't know how it works there, but maybe
they will remove this particular block, or make an exception as it is along
their political interests to support linux (and thus any development related to
it).
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