Simplified Chinese was recently removed from the available languages list for Market descriptions. At the same time when the new paid countries were added. Of course, it's entirely possible that one of the PhD's with no actual "real life" experience simply removed it during a clean-up exercise since no paid country uses Simplified Chinese as its official language. Nonwithstanding Singapore, where it's one of the 4 official languages, but unless you are well-versed in global affairs, that's probably not well known.
Of course, none of us on here know the decision process for the Android Market, but some of the choices made are just so puzzling that it's hard to explain them with anything other than ignorance. On Jun 7, 9:49 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > The Android Market is fully (ish) functional in PRC, it's just that it > doesn't support paid apps. One year ago, Traditional Chinese app > descriptions were supported but no Traditional Chinese country (e.g. Taiwan, > Hong Kong) had paid-app support. So, it would not be unreasonable to include > Simplified Chinese support. > > Most Android handsets I come across in China, do have Android Market pre > installed. So there's a license fee going on there (probably). I think it's > safe to say there are millions of Simplified Chinese Android Market users > out there who cannot read the app descriptions. > > On 7 June 2011 09:37, Zsolt Vasvari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The Android Market doesn't support PRC, so the lack of simplified > > Chinese is somewhat acceptable. > > > Of course, the PhD's on the Android Market team don't realize that a > > significant portion of Singapore's population speaks Mandarid written > > using simplified characters, so even if you don't support the People's > > Republic, a large percentage of one of the richest countries in the > > world is not catered for. > > > On Jun 7, 9:17 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Simplified Chinese is not even supported - that's 1.3 billion people > > unable > > > to read app descriptions. > > > > If you have a language that is not supported but most (or a large > > > percentage) of your users speak, then I would tag on the translation to > > the > > > end of (or instead of) the english app description (since that is > > probably > > > what those users will see). > > > > Ideal, I know :( > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
