Re: mandarin chinese

Hi Totsie,

They're both Mandarin Chinese, which refers to the 'spoken' language.
The difference is that Taiwan uses 'Traditional' Chinese characters and
Mainland China uses 'Simplified' hence the differentiation when it comes
to 'written' Chinese. Might pay to ask your client which country in the
main their Chinese-speaking clients/visitors will be coming from but as
a general rule you're probably best to go with Simplified Chinese (or
'China' in the case of Plone) as this is recognised by the majority of
Chinese speakers (disclaimer: I can speak fluent Chinese but am not a
Chinese national so someone else may have another opinion).

-Tim

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:33 -0700, Totsie Marine wrote:
> i see two types of chinese listed on the plone site. one for china and
> one for taiwan. our client specifically is interested in mandarin
> chinese. does anyone know which, if any, of these are mandarin?
> thanks
> totsie
> 
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