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copied!<p>I know nothing about any form of Chinese, but by looking at the examples in <a href="http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_%28language%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this Wikipedia page</a> I'm inclined to think that automatic conversion is possible, since many of the phrases seem to use the same number of characters and even the some of the same characters.</p> <p>I ran <a href="http://www.ideone.com/eTSeH" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a quick test</a> using a multibyte <code>ord()</code> function and I can't see any patterns that would allow the automatic conversion without the use of a (huge?) lookup translation table.</p> <pre><code>Traditional Chinese 漢字 Simplified Chinese 汉字 function mb_ord($string) { if (is_array($result = unpack('N', iconv('UTF-8', 'UCS-4BE', $string))) === true) { return $result[1]; } return false; } var_dump(mb_ord('漢'), mb_ord('字')); // 28450, 23383 var_dump(mb_ord('汉'), mb_ord('字')); // 27721, 23383 </code></pre> <p>This might be a good place to start building the LUTT:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://xahlee.org/lojban/simplified_chars.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><strong>Simplified/Traditional Chinese Characters List</strong></a></li> </ul> <p>I got to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4892372/language-codes-for-simplified-chinese-and-traditional-chinese/4894634#4894634">this other linked answer</a> that seems to agree (to some degree) with my reasoning:</p> <blockquote> <p>There are several countries where Chinese is the main written language. The major difference between them is whether they use simplified or traditional characters, <strong><em>but there are also minor regional differences</em></strong> (in vocabulary, etc).</p> </blockquote>

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