Subject: Re: request for info

From: James Lin <[email-masked]>

It is really hard to say which product will be the BEST one.

I have some suggestions :

1) On DOS side, ETEN Chinese system is a really solid based Chinese
operating system under English DOS for about 10 years.  It is not a word
processor, that's the beauty of it so you can use Lotus 123, Dbase
III+...and lot lot more.  You can simply use one of those more than 10
different Chinese word processor produced in Taiwan to do the WP job.
ETEN has BIG-5 code version and it comes with more than 10 different input
methods used in Taiwan.  They also has GB-code based version comes with
more than 10 different input methods used in China.

2) On DOS side, Microsoft has released Works Chinese Edition, which is a
DOS based multi-feature application, it support word processing !

3) On Windows side, why not use Microsoft Chinese Windows 3.1 ?  There are
over 200 typefaces avaiable for this windows ! Why bother to have PCX or
BMP files for most of these 200 typefaces are true type scalable fonts.
Microsoft has two versions of Chinee Windows, the one in BIG-5 code is ROC
version, the one in GB-code is PRC version.  The beauty of these windows
is that several companies already have released HAND-WRITE pen based
products for these windows !  I found them perfect for kid who treat them
as amazing toys.

4) Sony also released one CD-Rom called "Languages of the World" features
12 different languages in it including Chinese and Japanese.  For Chinese
and Japanses, this CD-Rom also provides bitmap representations if user
choose the option.

James Lin