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Description words for debian-chinese-gb and debian-chinese-big5 are severely outdated. Thus I'm seeking help to update those words.

Current problems:

* UTF-8 encoding has largely replaced others when using Chinese in Linux world. Mails sent to both mailing lists in recent years are 100% UTF-8 encoded.
GBK and BIG5 are quickly becoming irrelevant.

* Cross-posting mechanism (See bug #237723) has been broken for
**decades**. With no intention of fixing, such information should be removed from list description.

* Non-subscriber posting is allowed currently, which conflicts with current statement in the description.

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As a result, I believe it would be better if we differ those two lists according to
language variants (zh_CN, zh_TW, zh_HK, zh_SG, etc) instead of text encodings (GBK, BIG5, ...).

Proposed list descriptions are as follows:

debian-chinese-gb
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debian-user in Chinese [Simplified Chinese]

Debian Chinese Project; Chinese localization (l10n) issues, documentation
and website translation, user support, Chinese-specific development, etc.

Posts may be in English or Chinese. The simplified variant of Chinese (Simplified Chinese, like zh_CN or zh_SG) is preferred.

Languages used on this list: Chinese, English.

Posting address: debian-chinese-gb@lists.debian.org

debian-chinese-big5
===================

debian-user in Chinese [Traditional Chinese]

Debian Chinese Project; Chinese localization (l10n) issues, documentation
and website translation, user support, Chinese-specific development, etc.

Posts may be in English or Chinese. The traditional variant of Chinese (Traditional Chinese, like zh_TW or zh_HK) is preferred.

Languages used on this list: Chinese, English.

Posting address: debian-chinese-big5@lists.debian.org

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Please help reviewing and updating corresponding descriptions.

Thanks!

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Sincerely,
Boyuan Yang
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