{"id":359,"date":"2006-03-24T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T03:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/un-to-drop-traditional-chinese-characters-report\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T04:10:46","slug":"un-to-drop-traditional-chinese-characters-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/un-to-drop-traditional-chinese-characters-report\/","title":{"rendered":"UN to drop traditional Chinese characters: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day at the meeting Zhou Youguang spoke at, a PRC official announced that beginning in 2008 the United Nations will cease issuing any material in traditional Chinese characters. Only versions in &#8220;simplified&#8221; characters will be released, he said. <\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t known the U.N. was still using traditional characters at all. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/art\/2006\/03\/23\/253619\/UN_to_use_only_simplified_Chinese_after_2008.htm\">UN to use only simplified Chinese after 2008<\/a>, <em>Shanghai Daily<\/em>, March 23, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.com.cn\/chinese\/newinstall\/1162438.htm\"><span class=\"py\">2008 ni&#225;n h&#242;u Li&#225;nh&#233;gu&#243; sh&#464;y&#242;ng Zh&#333;ngw&#233;n y&#299;l&#476; y&#242;ng ji&#462;nt&#464;<\/span><\/a> (2008&#24180;&#21518;&#32852;&#21512;&#22269;&#20351;&#29992;&#20013;&#25991;&#19968;&#24459;&#29992;&#31616;&#20307;), via <em>Beijing Morning Post<\/em>, March 23, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/world\/2006-03\/23\/content_4333916.htm\"><span class=\"py\">H&#224;ny&#468; sh&#237;l&#236; sh&#236;ji&#232; d&#236;-&#232;r &#8212; Li&#225;nh&#233;gu&#243; Zh&#333;ngw&#233;n ji&#257;ng y&#299;l&#476; y&#242;ng ji&#462;nt&#464;<\/span><\/a> (&#27721;&#35821;&#23454;&#21147;&#19990;&#30028;&#31532;&#20108; &#32852;&#21512;&#22269;&#20013;&#25991;&#23558;&#19968;&#24459;&#29992;&#31616;&#20307;), Xinhua (alternate source of above article)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day at the meeting Zhou Youguang spoke at, a PRC official announced that beginning in 2008 the United Nations will cease issuing any material in traditional Chinese characters. Only versions in &#8220;simplified&#8221; characters will be released, he said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/un-to-drop-traditional-chinese-characters-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}