Subject: OS/2 Chinese version released in Taiwan

From: Carlos McEvilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:36:24 EST

A friend was at IBM Taiwan on Friday and said they have the new
Chinese version of OS/2 2.0 out now.  It is being sold through
the ETen company and also Sung Kang.  List price is NT$4,900.

Disappointingly, it uses IBM 5550 internal codes for storing
Chinese.  Surprising that IBM is not jumping on the Unicode
bandwagon; we can only hope they will do so later.  Anyone know
about this?

Good news is that you can run ETen in an OS/2 window, either as
one of many windows on the screen or as a full screen session.
So it sounds like you can use Big-5 or any other code ETen supports.
However, if you use ETen 3.x, the window must be an MS-DOS5
window booted from within OS/2.  This is how it was explained
to me; perhaps OS/2 users will understand the exact implications.
The bottom line seems to be: it works.

All menus in this version are displayed in Chinese.  Of course,
you don't need to have ETen--the above was just to say that ET
will run fine in an OS/2 DOS window.

- Carlos