Re: [clreq] Feedback on Chinese Layout Requirements Links (Draft) (#619)

Trying to translate the first comment:

In 2. Chinese Script Overview of the document [Chinese Layout Requirements Links](https://www.w3.org/International/clreq/resources/), there are some issues worth considering for correction.

> “In its 'main' category, CLDR lists 2,210 characters for the Simplified Chinese orthography, and 2,180 for Traditional Chinese. Combined, this includes 3,026 unique characters, and an overlap of 1,064 characters. A working set of characters for modern Chinese may include 3 times this number, and the Unicode Standard includes approaching 100,000 Han characters, many of which are archaic or esoteric.”

Generally speaking, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR and other regions have their own special regulations.

For Mainland China, we can refer to the Tier I of the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (Chinese: 通用规范汉字表), with a total of 3,500 characters. We can also refer to the `kTGH` property in Unicode Han Database.

In Taiwan, please refer to the new version of the Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters (Chinese: 常用國字標準字體表), with a total of 4,808 characters. The relevant property is currently missing in the Unicode Han Database and can be added if necessary.

Hong Kong SAR, refer to the List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters, 1997 version (Chinese: 常用字字形表). There is a `kHKGlyph` property in the Unicode Han Database, but there are still problems that need to be corrected.

The Macao SAR has not yet released its standard list of Chinese characters.

In addition, Singapore has released some character lists for primary schools, such as the "'Happy Buddy' Chinese Character List for Primary Schools" (Chinese: 《欢乐伙伴》小学华文生字表) and "'Happy Buddy' Advanced Chinese Character List" for Primary Schools" (Chinese: 《欢乐伙伴》小学高级华文生字表), etc., but the number of characters used is not clear.

> “Chinese has no combining marks,”

In university textbooks (especially the Chinese language and literature major), Chinese opera (especially Kunqu), etc., it is often necessary to use the four combining marks U+302A - U+302D that represent tones. For the sake of rigor, phrases such as "commonly" or "in general use" can be added to this sentence.


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