Hi,
I wondered about some things around the Chinese variant conversion:
* When a person uses a search engine, do the links in the results point
directly to one of the variants? That is, does it point to
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Article_name , etc., or simply to
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_name ? I guess that among Chinese-speaking
people Google is not necessarily as ubiquitous as elsewhere, so there is
probably a separate answer for each search engine.
* If for any search engine the answer above is "yes", does anybody have an
idea about how does that search engine guess the preferred variant? Usage
of simplified / traditional characters in the search query? Geolocation?
Preferred language settings in the browser ("Accept-Language")? Preferences
in the search engine itself? A combination of all of the above? Something
else?
* Does any of the search engine show direct links to country-based variants
- zh-cn, zh-hk, zh-tw, zh-sg, zh-mo? Or to the more generic zh-hans and
zh-hant?
* For users who didn't log in, is the variant selection remembered in a
cookie or in localStorage?
I cannot easily test any of these things myself, because I don't speak
Chinese, I'm not familiar with Chinese search engines, and I don't live in
a Chinese-speaking country (and geolocation matters). But since I care
about language, I'm very curious about this.
Thanks!
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