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Add "Minnan" language (nan) for i18n/translation #3321

Open GJRobert opened 4 years ago

GJRobert commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I would like to start the l10n of DokuWiki for the Minnan language (ISO code nan). Could you add it to the Translation Hub? Thanks!

Best regards

phy25 commented 4 years ago

I am not seeing nan in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. Do you mean zh-min-nan?

GJRobert commented 4 years ago

I am not seeing nan in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. Do you mean zh-min-nan?

Hi, thanks for replying.

As I see in #3275 , language of ISO-639-3 3-alphabet codes was accepted (ckb Central Kurdish) as a DokuWiki language. And the Minnan language (or literally "Souther Min" as used by English Wikipedia) has its own ISO-639-3 code nan. Since ISO-639-1 2-alphabet codes obviously covers much less languages of the world, the extended standard ISO-639-3 should be able to complement.

I have also tested on my DW instance, there is no technical problem in DW with inc/lang/nan + locale set to nan.

zh-min-nan as a Wikipedia version sub-domain name, was rather a fossil of the transition period before ISO-639-3 was widely known (Minnan Wikipedia was created quite earlier than other Sinitic languages). It is still in use today but just because of cost of change, and http://nan.wikipedia.org/ is a surely valid alias. We can also take later Sinitic language versions of Wikipedia like Hakka (hak), Min Dong (cdo), Gan (gan), Cantonese (yue), Wu (wuu) as examples of ISO-639-3 codes widely used to refer to Sinitic languages. For consistency, it is therefore rather feasible to use nan for Minnan too in DokuWiki.

splitbrain commented 4 years ago

Using nan is fine with me. Simply send a pull request with an Initial translation. As soon as it's merged it should start to show up in the translation interface.

Klap-in commented 4 years ago

Not completely sure if it is automatically added. I removed some of these auto-features because these added nonsense in the past. But I merged the nan submission with English strings, so we will see if the translation tool is refreshed.

Klap-in commented 4 years ago

@splitbrain is right, you can nowuse the interface: https://translate.dokuwiki.org/?lang=nan @GJRobert success! Nice that you help contribute with the translations.

GJRobert commented 4 years ago

@splitbrain So cool. Thanks for your instruction~ @Klap-in Thanks for your help~