Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters in CJK

Question

I am using CJK package to create a tex file based on a traditional Chinese doc file. Sometimes other people may mistakenly type some simplified Chinese Characters in the doc file. I realize some simplified Chinese characters do not show in a traditional Chinese environment:

\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi} 
...
\end{CJK}

Is there a way to get simplified Chinese characters generated in a similar environment with CJK package?

For some limitations, I have to use pdflatex.

Answer 1

You could switch to a different engine, in this case xelatex, which I think makes it easier to handle fonts and also other languages. In the case of languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean, you can load the appropriately named xeCJK package.

When using xelatex, you can load the fontspec package and then use \setmainfont{} to set the document font. By the same token, with the previously named package, you can also load the command \setCJKmainfont{} and load a font specifically for your language, for example I used Heiti TC, where the T stands for Traditional (there's also Heiti SC). But you could use any font that is designed for Traditional Chinese.

Here's what it looks like with a Chinese Lorem Ipsum, although I cannot post the body code with the Chinese part, because it's blocked and I cannot post it.

And here's the code

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper, margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xeCJK}

\setCJKmainfont{Heiti TC}

\begin{document}
...
\end{document}

Answer 2

Strictly speaking, \begin{CJK}{UTF8}{bsmi} is not a "traditional Chinese" environment. It does not show simplified chinese characters because the font here, bsmi, contains only traditional Chinese characters. To typeset simplified Chinese, one has to load corresponding font, such as gbsn. (This time, traditional Chinese characters are not shown.)

Answer 3

Why not use the ctex package? You'd only need to load the package and type away...

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

简体中文，简体中文；简体中文。

繁體中文，繁體中文；繁體中文。
\end{document}

Output

Answer 4

問題不是怎麼用簡體字。 真的問題是怎麼修理檔所以只用正體字。 你可能用opencc自動換:

Why not mend the problem rather than the symptom? Pipe the file through opencc (package opencc-tools on Fedora) before running LaTeX:

$ cat source.tex | opencc > source.proper.tex

$ latex source.proper.tex