Some user from respective region have previously told me that because
Simplified Chinese doesn't work for writing Min-nan, the "-Hant"
designation is redundant and thus nan-Hani should be sufficient to identify
the language/writing of "Min nan in Han script"

在 2020年2月23日週日 18:58,Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 寫道:

> Hi,
>
> Every now and then there are proposals to add support for writing Minnan
> in Chinese characters.
>
> Currently, there is a Wikipedia in Minnan in Latin characters:
> https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org . (Its domain should probably be renamed
> to nan.wikipedia.org, but that is blocked for unfortunate technical
> reasons and this is not what this email is about.)
>
> However, there are proposals to allow that language in Chinese characters,
> at least as a localization, for example:
> *
> https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:The_dog2&oldid=3928408#Min-nan_in_Chinese_characters
> * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180771
>
> I am not opposed to adding nan-hani or nan-hant or something like that for
> MediaWiki localization (whether to make a whole wiki in that language is a
> separate question, not for discussion in this thread). However, I know
> almost nothing about these languages. Can anyone think of a reason not to
> do it?
>
> And if it's done, what should the code be? nan-hani, nan-hant, or
> something else?
>
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