Re: Simplified or traditional for each Chinese macrolanguage

2016-07-27 12:34 GMT+09:00 Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Koji Ishii wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Mandarin is just what we generally refer to by saying "Chinese". Literary
> is a historic language of Chinese, which is not used in daily life nowadays.
>
>
> Maybe we should handle them as "unknown", so that browsers fallback to use
> the system setting?
>
> What should zh (without anthing else) do, actually? What happens to that
> should probably be what we do for Mandarin and Literary.
>

Blink and WebKit uses Simplified for "zh", I guess other browsers too?

FYI, Wikipedia[1] already uses lzh", without script.
>
>
> If we use Wikipedia as the criterion, the list would significantly change.
> Basically as far as I can see, Wikipedia uses Traditional Chinese in almost
> every Chinese languages it has a version for. But I suspect that most of
> those Wikipedia are built by language enthusiasts, and not used by people
> in general, so I tend not to pick that as a criterion.
>

I tend to agree.


> But on the other hand, I guess those language tags are almost only used in
> Wikipedia, and not anywhere else...
>

I'm not sure...I just started hearing about Chinese macrolanguage recently,
people may use encompassed languages ("yue" etc.) over macrolanguage ("zh")
more.

FYI, 58.6% of pages have the "lang" attribute today. Having interoperable
behavior would be good.

/koji