Re: vim tutor in Chinese to update

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:48:06 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Alick Zhao wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:14:13 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>>>
>>> Alick Zhao wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also there's an issue about Chinese version of vim tutor file. Nowadays
>>>> Simplified Chinese user typically use zh_CN.UTF-8 locale in Linux/Unix
>>>> systems. When they(including me) type the command 'vimtutor', they will
>>>> get tutor in Traditional Chinese. The reason is that the tutor file
>>>> 'tutor.zh.utf-8' is in Traditional Chinese, and there is no Simplified
>>>> Chinese UTF-8 version. I see in the manual that language is a two-letter
>>>> name, but I don't think *two*-letter is required indeed. Is it so? Can
>>>> we have separate tutor files 'tutor.zh_cn.utf-8' and
>>>> 'tutor.zh_tw.utf-8', like the case in gui menu translation?
>>>
>>> We definitely need two Chinese tutors. Calling them with the five
>>> letter name is appropriate.
>>>
>>> This requires changing tutor/tutor.vim. Currently it cuts off
>>> everything after the first two characters in line 44. That will require
>>> some work. Probably by using s:lang around line 78, where Chinese is
>>> handled. That avoids having to change much in the rest of the file.
>>>
>>
>> Use iconv to get a usable (a bit outdated though) 'tutor.zh_cn.utf-8':
>>
>> iconv -f CP936 -t UTF-8 tutor.zh.euc > tutor.zh_cn.utf8
>>
>> And rename tutor.zh.utf-8 to tutor.zh_tw.utf-8 (to be more consistent).
>>
>> And then with the following patch the issue should be fixed.
>> (Last change info at line 4 of tutor.vim should be updated too.)
>>
>> --- tutor.vim.bak 2012-09-04 21:15:23.330111701 +0800
>> +++ tutor.vim 2012-09-04 21:57:46.597714283 +0800
>> @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
>> let s:ext = ".zh.big5"
>> elseif &enc != 'utf-8'
>> let s:ext = ".zh.euc"
>> + elseif exists("s:lang")
>> + if s:lang =~? 'zh_cn'
>> + let s:ext = ".zh_cn"
>> + else
>> + let s:ext = ".zh_tw"
>> + endif
>> endif
>> endif
>
> If we rename tutor.zh.utf-8 to tutor.zh_tw.utf-8, then we need to have a
> fallback for when s:lang is not defined. Using the zh_cn one is the
> best guess, so this should work:
>
> if s:ext =~? '\.zh'
> if &enc =~ 'big5\|cp950'
> let s:ext = ".zh.big5"
> elseif &enc != 'utf-8'
> let s:ext = ".zh.euc"
> elseif exists("s:lang") && s:lang =~? 'zh_tw'
> let s:ext = ".zh_tw"
> else
> let s:ext = ".zh_cn"
> endif
> endif
>
> Please check.
>

If s:lang does not exist, the user should be providing lang code in the
command line, like 'vimtutor zh_tw'. This change will make 'vimtutor
zh_tw' also return a zh_cn tutor file, which is not the expected
behavior IMO.

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alick
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Alick

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