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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