You can ask Facebook to make a change: load the page specified by you
and display it to you, and load another canonical version to store (so
they can do proper link count etc.)...

-Liangent

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess it's because we have <link rel="canonical"
> href="http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail"; /> in page source, so
> Facebook is fetching the canonical (variant-neutral) version (and this
> is expected, since http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Gmail and
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Gmail refer to the same article), where
> zh is used as the interface language. However zh falls back to
> zh-hans, so all interface messages are in zh-hans.
>
> -Liangent
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Gentlemen, no matter if in Google search results, or Facebook link
>> previews, links that specifically have the zh-tw part in them
>> http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/ ...
>> still end up having simplified Chinese, despite no such simplified <title>
>> appearing in the entire page.
>> I suspect somehow the simplified Chinese version is considered Cache
>> Equivalent for <title> purposes ... but it is not and looks horrible to
>> me trying to present a fully Traditional appearing link.
>> Go ahead and test, share "http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/Gmail"; via
>> Facebook, and notice the simplified Chinese there in the title of the
>> link created.
>>
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