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Code zh-tw means the Chinese variant used in Taiwan. The technically correct code for Traditional Chinese is zh-hant.

It’s an entirely separate issue from the flag, but the developer technically should label the languages “Chinese (China)” and “Chinese (Taiwan)” in the dropdown instead, to better correspond to the flags.

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No. The dropdowns reflect Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese languages, not countries.

It depends on how you view it. If you want to show flags, use the region to annotate the language. If you want to show the script variant (Traditional vs Simplified), don’t use flags. I don’t see how you can naively come to the conclusion only one of these is acceptable.

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