How to provide single Chinese localization for both Simplified and Traditional.

Hello everyone,


I want to provide Chinese localization for my app used in both chinese-simplified and chinese-traditional.

I've chosen "Chinese (zh)" localization in Xcode. It works well for Chinese-simplified but Chinese-Traditional doesn't fall back to Chinese. Instead, english strings are displayed.


Is it normal or is it a bug?

Is it possible to have one chinese-strings file used for both simplified and traditional Chinese?



Replies

Aren't Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional two distinct languages? Why would you want a single strings file for both?

What is the primary language for that app?


I agree w/bbousquet, why one set of strings?


See Table B-4 in this document:


https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/LanguageandLocaleIDs/LanguageandLocaleIDs.html...


zh-Hans

Chinese in the simplified script.

zh-Hant

Chinese in the traditional script.

As a side issue, is this for mainland China? If so, have you looked at the requirements to sell a game there? Has anyone successfully obtained a permit to sell a game?

Doesn't Chinese Simplified and Traditional have only subtle differences in some words?

Just like US versus UK English.