Friday, October 24, 2003

Displaying Chinese Text: "Most Chinese web pages contain Chinese as text rather than graphics. To read them, you need to install fonts and configure your browser. See 'Read Chinese in Net Applications' or read the following section for quick hints.

Configuring your browser to display Chinese text
The two most commonly used character sets are GB (GuoBiao), used for simplified characters (mainland China); and Big5, used for traditional characters (Taiwan and Hong Kong). Most popular browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer can be configured to display either or both (separate fonts may be needed).

Microsoft Windows: Chinese versions of Windows are available. However, if you have the English version, then you need a helper application such as UnionWay or NJWIN or RichWin 97 for Internet or Chinese Star or Twinbridge AsianViewer in order to display Chinese.
Microsoft also provides multilanguage support fonts for simplified and traditional Chinese (or Japanese, Korean, etc).

Macintosh: see 'Read Chinese in Net Applications'

Unix: You can get Chinese fonts by installing cxterm, which is a Chinese-enabled version of XTerm. The file is cxterm 5.0.p3.tar.gz (also available here), Here is the README file. "

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