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<p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone explain why it is that Wikipedia is tagging Simplified Chinese content as simply ¡°zh¡±?
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are exceptions where ¡°zh-Hans¡± or ¡°zh-Hant¡± are used. E.g., this sidebar in the English-language article on ¡°Chinese language¡± (here:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language</a>):
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Chinese languages (Spoken)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black">h</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"MS Mincho";color:black">ÕZ</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="JA" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"PMingLiU","serif";color:black">ººÓï</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But pages that are in Simplified Chinese (at least, all in the small sample I looked at) have in their html tag,
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<p class="MsoNormal">lang="zh"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That¡¯s not good practice and will lead to users encountering buggy behaviour (e.g., content being displayed using the wrong fonts).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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