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Holiday calendar for Taiwan uses inappropriate character set #646

Closed donnch closed 1 month ago

donnch commented 1 month ago

The calendar for Taiwan is using Simplified Characters. This is incorrect (and politically insulting) for Taiwanese users. The official writing system of Taiwan is Traditional Characters.

MelissaAutumn commented 1 month ago

Thank you for the report, and apologies for the incorret locale. I'll investigate this next week and regenerate the calendars accordingly.

MelissaAutumn commented 1 month ago

Hey there @donnch apologies for the delay. After checking with our calendar provider they don't seem to support Traditional Characters. Would English be an appropriate alternative?

MelissaAutumn commented 1 month ago

Hello again!

We're investigating switching calendar providers, which won't happen for a little while but wanted to check in.

Would this data acceptable be acceptable? https://github.com/commenthol/date-holidays/blob/master/data/countries/TW.yaml

donnch commented 1 month ago

Would English be an appropriate alternative?

Hi @MelissaAutumn , thanks for looking into this. I don't think I can comment on the extent to which other users would fully accept English instead (given it isn't the normal language), other than that it is at least a more palatable choice for some users who would find Simplified Characters to be an unnecessary reminder of geopolitical threats. I guess you could try changing to English temporarily and seeing if the number of subscribers to that calendar changed?

The Wikipedia-based data in the link you suggested would be a suitable alternative as far as I can see, so hopefully new providers could be implemented sooner rather than later.

MelissaAutumn commented 1 month ago

Apologies for the delay and the less than ideal solution for now. But I've updated the calendar to use English in the mean-time. The website cache should clear in a few hours to a day.

We actually don't track subscription numbers for the calendar, and we'll hopefully switch providers in the near future. Let me know if there's anymore issues with the calendar!