[Wikipedia-l] Re: zh.wikipedia.org - having a single unified portal

Wed Jun 23 22:08:55 UTC 2004

Ting Chen wrote:

> So, one technical solution could be we save the articles always in
> traditional form in the database. If a user has in his user-setting
> simplified, then the server would convert that article into simplified.
> After his edition, the server can compare the changes and only converse the
> changed part into traditional and save it into database.
> 
> This last part is the only place, where the conversion could make failure
> because it is possible, that one simplified character is conversed into a
> false traditional character. But that is no problem, for one, we can place
> some commonly used context related conversions into the program. Second, the
> other users can manually correct the failure.

This is exactly what I was thinking, but I don't know if any traditional 
character can unambiguously be converted to a simplified one. Your 
message appears to imply this, is that correct? If it is, then yes, this 
is the Way To Go™, I think.

Timwi