Forum OpenACS Q&A: Traditional Chinese localization

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Posted by Winny Zhang on
Hi:

Since simplified Chinese localization has been done, would that be possible just to change fonts to traditional Chinese without translate again? How easy or difficult it is to do this?

Thanks
Winny

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Posted by Guan Yang on

It's not just a matter of fonts; simplified and traditional Chinese, at least in Unicode, are encoded at different Unicode code points. For example compare this to this.

If you wanted to do an automated conversion, I would probably start with the XML catalog files for Simplified Chinese and then write a program, á la iconv, to convert the catalog files. You can then import them into OpenACS again afterwards.

If you are familiar with Perl, perhaps the Encode::CNMap library from CPAN will be helpful.