Establishing a team for Taiwanese

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 27 d’abril del 2026, a les 15:56:43 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa 
central), 如月 va escriure:
> Hello,

Hi
 
> I would like to establish a language team for Taiwanese (nan_TW). I am
> already a translator for Traditional Chinese (zh_TW), but since I also
> speak Taiwanese and it is a language in the process of a revival, I would
> like to do something for it.
> 
> 
> This language is also known as Taiwanese Taigi (official name) or Taiwanese
> Hokkien. The former is preferred in official (government) contexts; it is
> mostly referred to as Taiwanese in English.

It would seem that glib and CLDR disagree with you, both seem to call it 

Min Nan Chinese

https://lh.2xlibre.net/values/language/

> Taiwanese has two main writing systems (Chinese/Han characters and Latin
> romanization), both are in somewhat active use. I plan to translate for
> both of them.

Can they be converted automatically or they need manual intervention?

> - Taiwanese is not supported by Qt in QLocale. This probably should change,
> although I don't know where to start. One QLocale::Taiwanese should be
> enough, since other languages with multiple orthographies like Belarusian
> also have just one QLocale value. - Taiwanese already has 2 glibc locales,
> nan_TW and nan_TW at latin, for the two main orthographies.

I think this should be your first step, without it many things are just going 
to break.

If you want I can find the appropriate people in Qt that may help you.

Best Regards,
  Albert

> 
> 
> I know I need to start by translating kcoreaddons, kio, and kxmlgui. I am
> currently about 30% done, but would like to at least announce the effort.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Kisaragi Hiu