Ting Chen wrote:
So, one technical solution could be we save the
articles always in
traditional form in the database. If a user has in his user-setting
simplified, then the server would convert that article into simplified.
After his edition, the server can compare the changes and only converse the
changed part into traditional and save it into database.
This last part is the only place, where the conversion could make failure
because it is possible, that one simplified character is conversed into a
false traditional character. But that is no problem, for one, we can place
some commonly used context related conversions into the program. Second, the
other users can manually correct the failure.
This is exactly what I was thinking, but I don't know if any traditional
character can unambiguously be converted to a simplified one. Your
message appears to imply this, is that correct? If it is, then yes, this
is the Way To Go™, I think.
Timwi