zh_TW.Big5 (was : Re: A public display of translation ignorance)

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On 31 Jul 2001 18:50:11 -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 	Is it just me, is it my build setup, have I some ancient
> translation software ?

No, this is not only you. A LOT of hackers are having this problem.

> 	Everywhere I go, zh_TW.Big5 gets there before me, and my build
> breaks horribly - in a way I can't fix except by knobbling configure.in

The problem is that we can't support this locale with an old version of
gettext. This is what i was told :

> For the zh_TW.Big5 problem, seems that you are using gettext <=
> 0.10.35.
> Gettext has changed behavior at 0.10.36 version which makes
traditional
> chinese translation incompatible with either earlier or later
versions.
> AFAIK everybody (gnome hackers and traditional chinese translation
> team)
> determined to switch to newer gettext behavior, and mark those
> old-behavior translations as erroneous. And the newest version of
> gettext
> is 0.10.38 now.

regards,
Chema.