I doubt it. If I recall the example correctly, it was "Hello, 世界!" Since "世界" means "world" the example is really the same "Hello, world!" example from C, only with one of the words changed to something that clearly requires Unicode. That was certainly my reaction when I saw the example: "oh, good, easy Unicode support"
I expect the choice of Chinese as the language is probably the fact that you can't play code page games very easily with Chinese, which you could with Korean, Arabic, etc. It is probably the most widely spoken language with a non-Latin character set. Also, chances are very good that a Chinese-writing colleague of the example writer was readily available. Although, who knows, it would be fun if it were because of the board game.
I expect the choice of Chinese as the language is probably the fact that you can't play code page games very easily with Chinese, which you could with Korean, Arabic, etc. It is probably the most widely spoken language with a non-Latin character set. Also, chances are very good that a Chinese-writing colleague of the example writer was readily available. Although, who knows, it would be fun if it were because of the board game.