.Net Core’s Chinese Traditional/Simplified Translation Library

The application that I worked on has two languages configured — English and Chinese (Traditional and Simplified).

I was able to use the VB library for .Net 4.7 to do the translation.

var simplified = Strings.StrConv(name, VbStrConv.SimplifiedChinese, 2052).ToLower();
var traditional = Strings.StrConv(name, VbStrConv.TraditionalChinese, 2052).ToLower();

And no that is no longer available in .Net Core.

I spent quite some time looking for a nuget package that would work and after tons of confusion, I found this

CHTCHSConv

The above package will do the work!

public string ToSimplified(string value)
{
     return ChineseConverter.Convert(value, ChineseConversionDirection.TraditionalToSimplified);
}
public string ToTraditional(string value)
{
     return ChineseConverter.Convert(value, ChineseConversionDirection.SimplifiedToTraditional);
}

There are a ton of confusing posts out there and there’s only one that I found that is legit.

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.StrConv不支持.net core的问题_博问_博客园

This article is a part of the .Net to .Net Core Migration Series
https://theochiu2010.medium.com/net-to-net-core-migration-2eb31584f95c