Traditional Chinese locale support for Paddle Checkout

What's new?

We added Traditional Chinese locale support to the Paddle platform, which means that Paddle Checkout can be localized in Traditional Chinese.

As part of this change, we added zh-TW as an allowed value for the locale parameter. You can pass this to Paddle.Checkout.open() or Paddle.Initialize() to set the locale for opened checkouts to Traditional Chinese.

How it works

Chinese languages can be written using Simplified Chinese characters or Traditional Chinese characters. Paddle includes support for Simplified Chinese characters (zh-Hans), commonly used in mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.

With this update, the Paddle platform now supports Traditional Chinese characters, too. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. It's a key locale for selling into the Asia-Pacific market, as well as overseas Chinese communities outside Southeast Asia.

Paddle Checkout automatically detects the best language based on a customer's browser default and location. Customers making a purchase using overlay checkout can switch language using the drop-down at the bottom of the overlay. You can also pass a locale when setting up Paddle.js or opening a checkout to set a locale yourself.

Next steps

This change is live in Paddle.js now.

You don't need to do anything to get the latest version of Paddle.js — we serve the latest version automatically.

You can pass zh-TW as a value for locale when setting up or opening a checkout to preview Paddle Checkout in Traditional Chinese, or use the drop-down at the bottom of overlay checkout to change language.

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