Re: language for changelog

[Anthony Fok]

On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 04:45:37PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Quoting Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > xcin_2.3.02-3_i386.changes
> >     (Note: the following is in Chinese big5 charset)
> > 
> > I feel amused by this changelog entry, bug I don't understand a word
> > of chinese.
> > 
> > I don't think a changelog is intend to be visible for a few couple
> > of people - native xxx speakers.
> > 
> > Could we make it policy that the language in the package description
> > and changelog has to be english?
> 
> Umm, but the xcin package is a Chinese terminal for X. Maybe someone
> didn't want to translate the changes into English? It seems to me that
> anyone who would need to use the package would be able to read Chinese.

Thanks for your support.  :-)

I did mention that the changes are to the file xcin/tsin.c (only).
I also applied some other patches to xcin/tsin.c in 2.3.02-2 and explained
some of the details that I know, so I didn't repeat those information for
the 2.3.02-3 changelog.

As I wrote in another message, I did try to translate the Chinese changelog,
but I am not technically well-versed enough to know exact what the changes
are.  I don't want to introduce any errors, so I included the Chinese
changelog in full and included some summary in English.  Besides, unless you
are developing XCIN, you probably won't have a clue what the changes are
about, even if you can read Chinese.

Here is the relevant portion of the changelog file:


xcin (2.3.02-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied another upstream patch (2.3.02-02.patch) to xcin/tsin.c:
    (Note: the following is in Chinese big5 charset)
     - Bug: ¥H going_key=1 ±Ò°Ê«á¡A¨Ï¥Îµü­µ¿é¤J¡A¦pªG³Ì«á¨S«ö¼Æ¦rÁä¿ï¦r
            ¦Ó«öªÅ¥ÕÁä¡A·|¥X²{¤£¥¿±²{¶H¡C
       Fix: From [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
       2.3.02-02.patch.
          + ±N startf, cpg ³]¦¨ global ªº static variable.
          + ­×§ï send_first¡A¤£»Ý¶Ç¤J startf,cfg. ¦P®É¦b send_first
            ¤¤Àˬd sel_pho ªº­È¡A¬Ý»¡¬O¦b¿ïµüªºª¬ºAÁÙ¬O ¿ï¦rªºª¬ºA¡C
          + ±N«öªÅ¥ÕÁä¤Î Up, down Á䪺¤ÏÀ³¤À¶} [EMAIL PROTECTED] if
            loop «Ü¦h¡A¦P®É·|¥X°ÝÃD ¹³¬O¤§«e¦³¤H©Ò´£ªº¦b going_key=0
            ®ÉµLªk¿ï­¶´N¬O³o¸Ìªº°ÝÃD¡C
  * debian/control:
     - Standards-Version: 2.4.1.0 compliant (AFAIK).  :-)
     - Added the XCIN Project Home Page to the package description.
  * README.Debian:
     - Added the "Quick Start", "XCIN Team Member" and "Acknowledgement"
       sections.

 -- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:21:43 -0600

xcin (2.3.02-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed xcin-doc's package description (closes: Bug#20077).
  * Applied upstream bugfix patch to fix some minor problems with
    xcin/tsin.c, the Tsi Yin (Ci2yin1, Phrase phonetic?) input method:
    (Note: The next 3 lines are encoded in charset=big5.)
     - Bug: ¨Ï¥Î going 0 ®É, µü­µ¿ï¦rµLªk¤Á­¶¡C
     - Bug: ¨Ï¥Î going 1 & ­Ê¤ÑÁä½L (-phokbm et) ®É¡Aµü­µ¤U "£©" ¥´¤£¥X¨Ó¡C
     - Bug: ¨Ï¥Îµü­µªº®É­Ô, ¿ï¦r«áªº­¶¼Æ·|³Q tsin °O°_¨Ó¡C
  * Updated README.Debian.
  * Fixed some errors in xcin.1, crxvt.1 and cin2tab.1.

 -- Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:55:00 -0600


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