Higher Unicode characters

On May 30, 8:22 am, Jean-Guy Marcil
<JeanGuyMar... DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Sorry about all the questions, but I figured it would be easier to have all
> my Unicode inquiries under oen roof! This way, uninterested parties can just
> skip the one post...
>
> Can someone explain something regarding unicode? Or, if such an explanation
> were to be too involved,  point me toward web ressources to help me
> understand.
>
> I have to work with documents written in Simplified/Traditional Chinese (by
> the way, I heard that simplified is Mandarin and that Traditional is
> Cantonese.... why not use Mandarin and Cantonese?),

I'm surprised no one commented on this.

"Simplified" is PRC (Mainland China). "Traditional" is Taiwan.

If you have a font with the extra characters that have been devised
for Cantonese (I don't believe they're contained in any official
standard), it could be either Traditional or Simplified, because
Cantonese is the language both of Canton and Hong Kong (PRC), and of a
large proportion of the Chinese diaspora -- which would by and large
be opposed to the use of Mao's Simplified character set.