What language specifically is Chinese, language code 'zh'?

When zh is used on its own, it is usually used to mean the predominant language in the encompassed range, although this is not explicitly ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Collectives ExploreCollectives FindaJob Jobs Companies Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Collaborateandshareknowledgewithaprivategroup. CreateafreeTeam WhatisTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam CollectivesonStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. Learnmore Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore WhatlanguagespecificallyisChinese,languagecode'zh'? AskQuestion Asked 4years,2monthsago Active 4years,2monthsago Viewed 9ktimes 2 1 IunderstandthatthereisSimplifiedChinese(zh-Hans)andTraditionalChinese(zh-Hant). HoweverXcodeallowstolocalizeforChinese(zh). FromthelocalizationfallbackconceptIunderstandthatitisthefallbackforSimplifiedChineseandTraditionalChinese.ThusiscantechnicallybeusedtohostcommonChineselocalizedstringsthatareequalinSimplifiedandTraditionalChinese. WhatistheXcodelocalezhfor? ShouldzhbeSimplifiedorTraditionalChinese? ioslocalizationnslocalizedstringchinese-localelocalizable.strings Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedOct2'17at23:20 Manuel askedOct2'17at22:23 ManuelManuel 12.5k33goldbadges4141silverbadges103103bronzebadges 0 Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Active Oldest Votes 5 ShouldzhbeSimplifiedorTraditionalChinese? AccordingtoW3C(andtheIANAsubtagregistry)zhisa"macrolanguage".Assuchithasnodefaultwritingsystemandamorespecificvariantshouldbeused.However,itgivesanexampleofcommonusageasfollows: Whenzhisusedonitsown,itisusuallyusedtomeanthepredominant languageintheencompassedrange,althoughthisisnotexplicitly specifiedinBCP47.Forexample,conventionallyzhisconsideredto representthepredominant,MandarinformofChinese. source:https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ ItseemsthatzhmightbeusedinlegacyapplicationstomeanMandarin.Althoughthelanguagetagcmnhasnodefaultwritingsystemeither,sothatstilldoesn'tanswerthequestionastowhichscriptitshouldbewrittenin. InotethatmyiPhone(iOS11)allowsmetosetthesystemlanguagetozh-Hans,zh-Hantandzh-Hant-HKonly,buthasnoMandarinoption. Disclamer:I'mneitheraniOSdevelopernordoIunderstandChinese.I'mjustalanguagetagnerd. 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