Subject: two more roads to Chinese WWW

From: Stephen G Simpson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 19:58:35 -0500

WWW is the World Wide Web, a new multimedia hypertext browsing system
that works over the Internet.  Through WWW you will have world-wide
access to thousands of documents, images, animations, and audio clips.

There are already several Chinese-language WWW servers.  One of them
is in the United States and is maintained by D.-P. Deng at
http://ifcss.org:8001/index.html.  There are also Chinese WWW servers
in Taiwan.  A starting point for WWW exploration in Taiwan is
http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/NEW/TANET/TANET.HTML.

The question arises, what software is available for Chinese-language
access to the WWW?  D.-P. Deng has made some information available at
http://ifcss.org:8001/www/chinese.html.  The purpose of this posting
is to present some additional information.

I know of two additional roads to Chinese WWW.

1. There is a Multi-Localized version of Mosaic for X Windows.  It is
said to support WWW access in many European and Asian languages,
including Big5-, GB-, and HZ-coded Chinese.  I haven't tested this,
but see http://www.ntt.jp/Mosaic-l10n/README.html.

2. Another method is to use William Perry's W3 browser for the GNU
Emacs text editor.  This provides Chinese WWW if you run Emacs on a
Chinese terminal or under a Chinese terminal emulator, such as Cxterm.
In addition to Emacs itself, you will need w3.tar.gz (available for
anonymous FTP at cs.indiana.edu, /pub/elisp/w3/) and Cemacs (see
explanation below).

Cemacs is my method of running Emacs in Chinese mode.  For Emacs
release 18, it is necessary to patch Emacs.  For Emacs release 19, no
patch is needed.  All that is needed is a small file of Emacs Lisp
code, cemacs.el.  Both versions of Cemacs (for Emacs 18 and Emacs 19)
are available for anonymous FTP at math.psu.edu,
/pub/simpson/chinese/cemacs/.

Stephen G. Simpson
Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
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