Last modified: 2008-12-30 02:22:12 UTC
Current Chinese language speakers use two different writing systems - simplified and traditional Chinese. Automatic conversion between them is critical for the future of Chinese Wikipedia. Current conversion tools such as libiconv convert characters between two different encodings, but situation we face now is a conversion inside Unicode. Unicode is include both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. for most simplified and traditional Chinese characters there exist a one-to-one mapping, but there still are about 100 pairs of simplified and traditional Chinese characters which are not one-to-one, and there is no space between two adjacent words in a Chinese sentence. So completely automatic conversion need some AI features, and is difficult, but we can introduce some kind of new markup to solve the problem.
I have been working on this issue lately, and will probably continue to work on it for a while. There is a test site for this at http://s87257573.onlinehome.us/wiki/
This was implemented some years ago. :)
