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LanguageDetector support for Traditional vs. Simplified Chinese

Category
Miscellaneous
Type
No developer-visible change
Status
Proposed (Chrome Proposed)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Two new detectable language codes, "zh-Hant" and "zh-Hans" will be added. Detection results that previously returned "zh" will now return one of these new values. While this is a developer-visible change it fits within the framework already present in the API for returning more specific language codes. For example ja vs. ja-Latn. This notice is being sent as a PSA for developers who have requested these more specific detection results.

Standards & signals

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