Thank you Xidorn, this list is great. So Literary Chinese and Mandarin are hard to determine? I checked Windows region/locale/language settings but it doesn't seem to have these in the list. Maybe we should handle them as "unknown", so that browsers fallback to use the system setting? FYI, Wikipedia[1] already uses lzh", without script. Richard, thank you, the tool helps! [1] https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%85%B8:%E5%8D%B7%E9%A6%96 2016-07-27 10:40 GMT+09:00 Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, at 02:12 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > > The only thing we currently have no idea is Literary Chinese (Classical > > > Chinese, or kanbun in Japanese). In mainland China, Simplified Chinese > > > characters are used for Literary Chinese, > > > > My understanding is that this is not entirely true: that works written > > in wenyan are usually written using traditional Chinese, at least if > > they are older than 1919 (the May Fourth Movement), even in the PRC. > > Textbooks use simplified Chinese for Wenyan in mainland China. > > As an example, Loushi Ming is a poem written in Tang Dynasty. It can be > seen in Chinese class of middle school in mainland China. This is the > version used in mainland China [1], and this is the version used in Hong > Kong [2] and Taiwan [3]. > > (Another evidence: since Chinese classes generally require writing some > of this kind of poems from memory, if I learned that in traditional > Chinese, I should have been able to write traditional Chinese > characters... But actually I can't. I learned traditional Chinese from > various reading materials, but I've never written it by hand.) > > [1] http://so.gushiwen.org/view_71138.aspx > [2] http://www.rthk.org.hk/chiculture/chilit/dy04_0401.htm > [3] http://art.pch.scu.edu.tw/sing/lou_shi_ming.htm > > - Xidorn >
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