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Mon 9 Sep 2013 11:56PM

Chinese

RDB Richard D. Bartlett Public Seen by 64

We've had a couple of people offer to do the Chinese translation recently. This thread is for them to connect and collaborate :)

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Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino) Wed 2 Apr 2014 12:23AM

Just to explain the Chinese language situation: there is an overlapping difference between spoken and written language. PRC and ROC both use mandarin, but PRC writes it with zh-Hans and ROC writes it with zh-Hant. Hong-Kong speaks mostly cantonese, but uses mandarin as their writing language (usually pronounced with the cantonese value of the characters) written with zh-Hant. Singapore is just like ROC mostly mandarin, but also written in zh-Hant. Otoh, there are a lot of other dialects in PRC that use zh-Hans as their written form.

JK

Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino) Wed 2 Apr 2014 12:25AM

I think you can use zh internally as the identifier until someone makes a Simplified translation ;).

MI

mix irving Mon 14 Apr 2014 11:53PM

Thanks for that, its good to have an overview

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