Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 09/06/06, Hsiang-Tai Chien htchien1225@yahoo.com.tw wrote:
zh-cn: Chinese language used in China, Simplified Chinese zh-hk: Chinese language used in Hong Kong, Traditional Chinese zh-sg: Chinese language used in Singapore, Traditional Chinese zh-tw: Chinese language used in Taiwan, Traditional Chinese
Although they are all Chinese, however, they use different terminologies for the same thing due to the culture changes in the areas. It's not just that simple with Han-S and Han-T. Also not a macro language I think.
I know it might not be easy for an non-Chinese to understand this, but it's the language we live with it day by day.
So are you suggesting we should stick to these distinctions? And we should have four zh-versions of all pages and templates? Because the tendency I have noticed is to use "zh-hans" and "zh-hant" which are nothing official. It would be nice at least if there was some consistency.
Brianna
Hoi, Well actually, zh-Hans and zh-Hant are less confusing than the other codes and they are absolutely official; these suffixes indicate the script used. In my understanding of Chinese, it is possible to replace one script with another, therefore zh-hk can be written in simplified if you so choose. Thanks, GerardM