Re: Simplified or traditional for each Chinese macrolanguage

2016-07-26 1:03 GMT-04:00 Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>:
> To pick appropriate fonts, browsers need to know whether traditional or
> simplified is preferred for the language, and I believe it's the same for
> Gecko.

This will be somewhat tricky...

> Yue looks easy, all information I looked for says traditional.

This is not strictly speaking correct. People in mainland China or who
have a stronger connection to mainland China (than to Hong Kong, for
example) will write Yue in simplified (using, as far as I can tell, a
*different* convention than what's used in Hong Kong).

(I came from Hong Kong, so I have every reason to tag along and just
say traditional. But that will be contrary to my observations.)

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Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 05:55:01 UTC