Questions related to specific aspects of machine-processing Chinese language, or to code that is executed under Chinese localization settings.
Questions tagged [chinese-locale]
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How to fix: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte"
as3:~/ngokevin-site# nano content/blog/20140114_test-chinese.mkd
as3:~/ngokevin-site# wok
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/wok", line 4, in
Engine()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wok/engine.py", line…

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Language codes for simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese?
We are creating multi-language subsites on our website.
I would like to use the 2-letter language codes. Spanish and French are easy. They will get URLs like:
mydomain.com/es
mydomain.com/fr
but I run into a problem with Traditional and…

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ReportLab: working with Chinese/Unicode characters
TL;DR:
Is there some way of telling ReportLab to use a specific font, and fallback to another if glyphs for some characters are missing? Alternatively, Do you know of a condensed TrueType font which contains the glyphs for all European languages,…

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How to publish my Android app on Tencent or 360 mobile?
I have a fully working APK of an Android application I have developed. The app only have ads and some basic functions, not any Google Admob ads or any Google in-app purchases.
I wish to market this app to China, but the Google Play store is…

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Element UI Pagination in Chinese instead of English
I started using the very nice Element UI components, and when I try to add the pagination component in my project using

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Wrong sorting with Collator using Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE
I'm trying to order a list of countries in Chinese using Locale.SIMPLIFIED_CHINESE, which seems that it orders using pinyin (phonetic alphabet, that is characters are ordered according to their latin correspondent combination, from A to Z).
But…

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How can I check if a string contains Chinese in Swift?
I want to know that how can I check if a string contains Chinese in Swift?
For example, I want to check if there's Chinese inside:
var myString = "Hi! 大家好!It's contains Chinese!"
Thanks!

He Yifei 何一非
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CSS - Why do Chinese websites use English font-family
I have worked on a couple of multi lingual website with both an English and Chinese version. I would always specify a Chinese CSS font-family for the Chinese version, and an English one for the English version. Makes sense…

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Chinese localization not worked with PHP gettext extension as it works with English
I'm already localized a website from Russian to English with PHP and gettext just with wrapping all strings into __($string) function.
It works.
Here's the gists: https://gist.github.com/Grawl/ba8f39b8398791c6a67e
But it don't work with Chinese…

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How to get Chinese locale to display in chinese as specifically simplified or traditional
I'm generating a list of locales and printing out their local display languages (i.e. printing out ja_JP as 日本語) using java.util.Locale. I noticed that both zh_CN (chinese simplified) and zh_TW (chinese traditional) localize as 中文 rather than 简体中文…

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Apache FOP Displaying ### with SimSun
I am maintaining a program which uses the Apache FOP for printing PDF documents. There have been a couple complaints about the Chinese characters coming up as "####". I have found an existing thread out there about this problem and done some…

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libgdx draw chinese characters
I like to print Chinese text in my application.
1.When I try this, the screen will be empty. There is no error at the console.
Create method:
FreeTypeFontGenerator gen = new FreeTypeFontGenerator(Gdx.files.internal("fonts/DFLS1B.TTF"));
font =…

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How to use mPDF for Chinese Language
I am using mPDF to save form input data to PDF. For English, it is working fine. Anyone can use this code to save HTML Form data to PDF.
Issue: In order to fulfill my project requirement I need to use the Chinese Language. My current code is not…

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MSKLC under Windows 10: Create custom keyboard layout which supports IME (input method) for Chinese and combined input in Spanish
This question is originally posted by me in Microsoft Community at:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/msklc-under-windows-10-create-custom-keyboard/8c5a7137-d575-4247-8ab3-b4dd1e5fb437?tm=1495318604424
In…

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What language specifically is Chinese, language code 'zh'?
I understand that there is Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans) and Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant).
However Xcode allows to localize for Chinese (zh).
From the localization fallback concept I understand that it is the fallback for Simplified Chinese and…

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