what language codes (e.g. "en", "fr") match up with "Chinese Simplified"?

[mixedup]

Do you know what language codes can be used with this Chinese simplified which I had translated?  

 

That is the two letter language codes such as "en", "fr" etc ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052(v=vs.85).aspx )

[Shelley]

Have you tried here:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

 

Seems to be only one for chinese not specificaly for simplified but I think it is for mainland chinese which is usually simplified.

 

Hope this helps.

[mixedup]

thanks - so "zh" is the only group/country (i.e. row on that table) for which they would understand Chinese Simplified then?   I'll make this assumption

[roddy]

It's often used in combination with country codes (cn, tw, hk). For simplified you probably want zh-cn?

[mixedup]

so in the app I'm developing I have only a few languages (re localization) - one is Chinese Simplified.  

 

The question is then, when a user set's their smart phone to a particular language, will it be one for which I can display to them.  

 

So in this case, which of all the language codes (such as zh, cn, tw etc etc) could I associated with Chinese Simplified?   Does this make sense?

[imron]

You need a combinattion of language and country code.

 

zh is the language - Chinese

 

zh-cn is for Chinese as used in mainland China e.g. simplified Chinese

zh-tw is for Chinese as used in taiwan e.g. traditional Chinese

[mixedup]

thanks

[mikelove]

Actually the preferred standard now is zh-Hans for simplified and zh-Hant for traditional, with country codes tacked on at the end (zh-Hans-CN e.g.). However, it varies greatly based on the implementation, often even within the same product / company: Apple for example uses zh-Hans in some parts of iOS and zh-CN in others. zh-CHS and zh-CHT were also used at one point, I believe, though they seem to have mostly disappeared now. zh-Hans is probably the most politically correct option, since it acknowledges the existence both of traditional characters and of topolects other than Mandarin. (zh-yue for Cantonese, e.g.)