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).
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. As an aside, there is an extremely good Crowd sourcing tool to facilitate collaboration on translations called Crowdin: www.crowdin.net 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. Chris On 8 January 2014 12:54, David Haslam <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Nic, > > As far as our Chinese modules go, I think it was the case that the source > file for ChiUn (Traditional) was converted from the source file used for > the > ChiUns (Simplified). Hmmm! > > There's a story behind this that maybe ought to be the subject of a new > thread. > > I'm not an expert on Chinese, but I know a man who is - Andrew West - the > developer of BabelPad. > > ybic > > David > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Locale-proposal-tp4653311p4653330.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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