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Should my Android app default to simplified or traditional Chinese?

Asked 2011-09-18T03:51:49.090
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I'm writing a localized Android app; I'm confused about how to handle the differences between simplified and traditional Chinese.

Thanks to this excellent answer I know that I should put simplified Chinese in values-zh-rCN and traditional Chinese in values-zh-rTW.

But I should presumably put something in values-zh, right? Folks in Hong Kong and Macao shouldn't just get my default (English) strings.

My question is: is it better to put traditional Chinese in values-zh? Or should I make simplified Chinese the default? (Or should I just omit the values-zh directory?)

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Traditional Chinese characters (Standard characters) are referred to by several different names within the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially calls traditional Chinese characters standard characters or orthodox characters (traditional Chinese; simplified Chinese.

People in China, Malaysia and Singapore mainly use the simplified system, Traditional Chinese characters are currently used in Taiwan (Republic of China), Hong Kong and Macau.

I think that you should not omit that values-zh , put it as simplified Chinese or allow user to switch the language in your apps.

answered 2011-09-18T04:45:56.073

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