It will extend offerings farther by making available a free trial of social networking services LotusLive Engage and LotusLive Connections in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Spanish.

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It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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While our US staff neglected to renew their passports in time for their flights, the folks over at Engadget Chinese ( traditional or simplified, your choice) were just a hop, skip, and jump away from Taipei, Taiwan, so they've graciously stepped up to the plate and provided the coverage necessary to make us feel that we're right in the thick of it.

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Taiwan residents write Chinese using traditional characters, while mainlanders prefer simplified forms adopted in 1951.

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After toying with using an alphabet to replace Chinese characters altogether, the government settled on a scheme to create new, simplified versions of the characters.

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