<div dir="ltr">My (little) understanding of the Chinese language is that there is a many-to-1 relationship between Traditional characters and Simplified characters. (For STEP we used a open-source conversion tool to automatically convert the translations. Then let our users proof-read the automatically generated Simplified Chinese).<div>
<br></div><div>In terms of the original topic, I'm led to believe it's much easier to read simplified Chinese if you are used to the traditional Chinese set, than vice-versa. As a result, if you have the choice of both locales you probably would want to default to the simplified character set (and I guess the population is also that much bigger). For example my Taiwanese friend can ready both character sets.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As an aside, there is an extremely good Crowd sourcing tool to facilitate collaboration on translations called Crowdin: <a href="http://www.crowdin.net">www.crowdin.net</a> which is free for open source projects. Allows you upload lots of screenshots, explain your translation terms, workflow messages, roles of translators & proof readers, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 January 2014 12:54, David Haslam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfhmch@googlemail.com" target="_blank">dfhmch@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nic,<br>
<br>
As far as our Chinese modules go, I think it was the case that the source<br>
file for ChiUn (Traditional) was converted from the source file used for the<br>
ChiUns (Simplified). Hmmm!<br>
<br>
There's a story behind this that maybe ought to be the subject of a new<br>
thread.<br>
<br>
I'm not an expert on Chinese, but I know a man who is - Andrew West - the<br>
developer of BabelPad.<br>
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ybic<br>
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David<br>
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