[wp-polyglots] Chinese Locales (was re: Seeking Maintainers)

[Ryan Boren]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:24 -0800, Morgan Doocy wrote:
>Great. Thanks for the very helpful information, Jeffrey.
>
>I suppose, then, we would only need two versions of the Chinese 
>localizations, for Simplified and Traditional. Otherwise we'd be 
>maintaining multiple identical copies of the same translation for 
>different countries (i.e. zh_CN and zh_SG would be identical). The 
>obvious choice would be to use zh_Hans and zh_Hant instead.
>
>I'm not sure if naming them like this would break WP's locale 
>functions, but from what I've seen it doesn't look like it would. Ryan, 
>thoughts?

WP doesn't use the real gettext libraries and so doesn't have the glibc
style locale naming requirements.  To us, the locale is just a string
that is used to look for a mo file in the filesystem.  We can be
flexible.

Ryan