Subject: Chinese Windows

From: Carlos McEvilly <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1991 23:09:23 EST

For anyone who's wondering about MS Windows 3.0 Chinese Edition...

My coworker showed me a letter he wrote yesterday with English and Chinese
mixed, composed in Microsoft Word under Chinese Windows.  The characters
looked really nice.  It was printed out on an HP Laserjet III.  This
answered a question I had been wondering about for a while, although it
still leaves me wondering whether *all* characters can be used so
smoothly (from what I've heard on the network, some characters get
misinterpreted as control codes and cause a bomb).  The characters may
be scaled by hilighting the chosen text and clicking on font, then
typing in your desired point size.

The other day I was trying out C-Windows and discovered that just as
in regular Windows you can capture the screen to the clipboard (press
PrintScreen), then enter Paintbrush, paste the clipboard image into the
Paintbrush work area, erase the unwanted parts, and resize the other
parts, including Chinese characters.  But this is all bitmaps, so it's
not nearly as pretty as the built in fonts that drive the laser printer.

Not being a great Windows fan, I must admit I'm a little disappointed to
see such nice printing coming from MS Word, and not from my favorite
Wordperfect... :)  Maybe I'll have to change religions after all.... :)

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From: Yuan Jiang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1992 17:04:30 EST

Thanks for those whose reponded to my previous posting.  It turns out
there are several Windows products for Chinese.  I almost made a
mistake.  I believe it's worth to share what I got with other
readers.  It may benefit the rest if those who have knowledge of the
software mentioned below can tell us the features and share their experience.

Thanks,

Yuan

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Subject: Re: Something new for Chinese Windows?
Status: R

Which version the the windows 3.0A is this?  A microsoft one or tsu-ts'e-hui
one?  If it is a tsu-ts'e-hui one, perhaps it is not very useful.  As far as
I know, tsu-ts'e-hui's version of windows does not even run words for windows.
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Subject: Something new for Chinese Windows?

Ni hao!

Don't confuse two, respectively three things. There is Microsoft
Chinese Windows (Zhongwen ban), which is som2 $200 and Sheena from II
in MD does not sell it. Contact WysSystems in HK.
There is Guorong Zhongwen Shichuang HuanJing, which is the product you
are referring to.
There is Taiwan Chinese Windows, an illegal clone already drowned.

And, as rumors like it, there is something weird called Beijing Chinese
Windows, all Jianti Zi. I have not seen it.
I work with the GuoRong, which is very fine.