Hi,

The neutral language code for Simplified Chinese used to be zh-CHS. However
the newest .NET documentation tells that it is zh-Hans. This is odd. What
would be the right. I tested on my XP + Visual Studio 2005 and zh-CHS seems
working.

Also Traditional used the be zh-CHT and now it is zh-Hant

Is this some new code introduced in .NET 3.0. If it is why??? Are the both
valid or do I have to check what is the .NET runtime and use the appropiate
code.

Best regards,
Jaakko

I tested zh-Hans on .NET 2.0 on XP.
Did not work. Only zh-CHS works.

I have also noticed that on the new documentation script is ised after
language when it used to be after country.

For example az-Latin-AZ vs. az-AZ-Latin

If would be good if MS would write document about these changes, why there
were done and are the new .NET platforms backward compatible.

Best regards,
Jaakko

Hi,
as for the "why", it's because a new RFC was introduced - you can read some more here <http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste/archive/2006/11/14/problems-compiling-resources-in-net-2-0-apps-after-updates.aspx>
But zh-Hans/Hant were only introduced on the Vista release of the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio will still produce resources for zh-CHS/zh-CHT, so that backwards compatibility is preserved (for now)
And in the immediate future both culture names (old and new) will work

HTH,
Aldo


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