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Lance Pollard
Lance Pollard

Reputation: 79228

How to automatically translate between traditional and simplified Chinese characters with Unicode?

Is there a way to translate programmatically from traditional to simplified Chinese characters? If so, how do you do it, does unicode offer a way? If not, why doesn't there exist a database with the mapping, is it not one-to-one? I know you can find a mirror image glyph from another glyph in Unicode, but can you find the simplified glyph from a traditional one?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1213

Answers (1)

dda
dda

Reputation: 6203

It is indeed not one to one. My favorite example to explain this quickly is this:

Take the character for face, 面. So far so good, it's the same in Traditional and Simplified Chinese. However, 面 is also the simplified version of 麵, noodle (where the 面 part on the right is the phonetic part). So if you have 面, you have no way of knowing which is which.

Upvotes: 1

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