Subject: Chinese System 6.07 for Mac

From: Huangxin Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 09:09:37 EDT

I just got the Chinese System 6.07 from the d e v e l o p magazine
CD issue 6.  I install it on a MacPlus with 4M RAM.  Everything looks very
stable.  Supposedly it should works all all Mac upto MacIIfx.  It seems
eventually we have a system which can totally replace the English
System in our daily usage --- at least before System 7.  The best thing
for me is I can used HyperCard now (with CH6.03 I have to stick with
HyperCard 1.21).

   Here is some small questions:

(1) THINK C  4.0.2 seems sometime have problem.  I just upgrade it to 4.0.5
    Hopefully it will work.  Anyone else has problem with it?
(2) In the old Chinese System (maybe 4.*) you can choose a character and press
    "?"   then its pinyin and the first "bi-hua" of that character will be
    shown.  It seems we cannot do this now with the new System.  Is this
    function changed to other key, or it is no longer possible to do it?
(3) In HyperCard (e.g. I use HyperFTP with MacTCP to ftp file from mainframe
    to Mac), the password function seems conflict with Chinese character.
    For anonymous ftp it is fine since password can be anything, but I always
    have trouble for real password (I guess there might be a set_font function
    in HyperTalk that will solve this problem.  Anyone know how to do it?)
(4) I would like to fiddle more with the ResEdit on the Chinese System.  For
    example, can I change the startup mode as English rather than Chinese
    (I mean the Mac starts up with the right upper corner icon as diamond
    rather than circle)?  Can I redefine the toggle key between mode (Control_
    Spacebar) as something else (since Control_Spacebar conflict with the
    definition in HyperCard, where it means "hide menubar")?
(5) To Ed Lai:  do you have a newer version of cihui input for the new system?
    How about the "Chinese Dictionary" for the HGB?
(6) There is *Beijing* 9 point font in this System.  But the chinese character
    seems to be still scaled font.  Is it the case?
(7) Now the big question:  where can I get other larger size font (such as
    song 48, li 48)?
(8) Can one edit a new ziku fbit file (not to mix with the original
    16L1 and 16L2) to put the customized characters?  How can one use
    (call up in input) these user-define characters?

    In the same issue of d e v e l o p magazine, there is also a big
HyperCard "book" (12Mb) talking about the script manager in Macintosh
International System design.  It might be a good source for one to
start doing more with the Chinese System.

    MSWord can partially work (Choose font as *Beijing* rather than Beijing).
But it is cannot handle linebreak properly (you have to use space to help
it do it properly).  It still cannot display HuaXiaWenZhai properly (that
means you still have to use QRead).

    I also install the English System 7 on the same hard disk with the
Ch6.07, and use blesser to switch between the two.  But blesser1.1 need to be
fixed up a bit for it to recognize the System7 System file.  In System 6, the
System file type is "ZSYS", in 7 it is called "zsys".  So make a copy of
blesser, use REdit or other file editor to edit CODE resource ID=1, searching
for ASCII string "ZSYS" and change it to "zsys". (You are NOT able to do this
by ResEdit2.1 --- there is no "Find" ability there!).  Right now I can
switching between System7 and CH6.07 without any problem.

    Now let us start waiting for Chinese System 7.

		Huangxin Wang, University of Pennsylvania

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From: [email-masked] ( Huangxin Wang)
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 10:00:00 EDT

yes.  Basically just as what you can do with English system.

But for best result, you should have at least 2M RAM to run HyperCard 2.0
(since it allow you to mixing fonts, thus very convinient).

I have already use MacWrite to compile Chinese address book.