Re: [PATCH v2] docs: zh_TW: process: localize terminologies and improve fluency in 8.Conclusion

[Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>]

On 7/10/26 9:00 PM, Weijie Yuan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 04:49:30PM +0800, 葉宸佑 wrote:
>> Gentle ping.
>>
>> This v2 addressed the review comments from Alex and Dongliang.
>> Is there anything else I should improve, or is it queued somewhere
>> I might have missed?
> Hi Chenyou,
>
> I think currently having Alex apply your patch is a temporary measure,
> because the maintainer of traditional Chinese seems unlikely to be
> available in the near future.

I can help review patches in traditional Chinese. With the help of LLM, 
it is fine for me to handle local terminologies in zh_TW.

Dongliang Mu

>
> Outside the patch itself, I noticed that Traditional Chinese is actually
> in a state of stagnation, which makes me think that receiving such
> patches is a temporary solution rather than a long-term fix.
>
> As Jonathan said, "...But there does come a point where a translation
> is so obsolete that it does more harm than good and there are no
> prospects of it being updated."
>
> So, after a period of about two years of stagnation, the Traditional
> Chinese documents seem to have really reached an unreadable state. This
> is something we don't want to see, but we must accept the reality and
> then take action. Please note that I have no intention of offending
> Haowen. On the contrary, I am definitely grateful for all that he has
> done.
>
> I did some interactions with one of the L10n Taiwan team (who are
> involved with Git L10n) [1] in their telegram channel a few days before,
> but sadly they said the biggest problems are:
>
>    1. No one is willing to take over. (hey, I totally understand)
>    2. There are different opinions on translation. (I don't know the
>       deeper details)
>
> Besides, I'm also very curious about how exactly we define the position
> of traditional Chinese or zh_TW. From my rough observation, the existing
> documents merely performed a simple conversion between simplified and
> traditional Chinese, without taking into account the local expressions
> specific to Taiwan. Therefore, that's why we are receiving the patch
> here and commit aba18be23f14 ("docs/zh_TW: replace 接口 with 介面 in stable-api-nonsense.rst")
> (Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I have not got into many
> translated pages)
>
> So if we are doing zh_TW instead of a direct simplified and traditional
> Chinese conversion, I don't think we can handle this properly without
> the help of Taiwanese friends.
>
> Of course, I feel quite ashamed that I'm saying these above here without
> having made any substantial contributions to this community, sorry.
>
> Could we discuss this matter in another thread? Very sorry Chenyou, what
> I'm saying is completely unrelated to the patch itself.
>
> Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Haowen.
>
> Thanks,
> Weijie
>
> [1] https://l10n.tw/