Subject: Re: chinese computing on ibm

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 05:22:51 -0500

Hi, Mr/x. WUYI$A at Yale...

to your question: Depending on what you want to do there are three
possibilities represented by four different packages available.

1) Chinese Windows using BIG5(Taiwan) code
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1a Mircosoft Windows for Taiwan, Ver.3.0;
1b MS-Windows 3.0 Engl. Ed. + III (Institute of Information Industry in
Taiwan) extension.

Both versions support MS-Excel 3.0/4.0 but not MS-Winword(!? MS:
,,there is a special version of Winword for Taiwan...'') or WP for
Windows (Noway to do this because of the usage of ,,self breu'' printer
drivers by WP). 1a supports Micrografix' Designer and 1b supports
Aldus' PageMaker. Only CangJei (or ..Jie) and BoPoMoFo are available.
Both products are only (really) available in Taiwan. Still I have got
an 1a-CD with SDKE from Microsoft directly, thanks!

2) Chinese DOS-Extension using BIG5(Taiwan) Code
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Eten, works well and stable. Somebodies complained about the large
memory usage. Cannot run under Windows 3.1 as DOS application. See many
other comments on this network for details.

3) Chinese DOS-Extension using GB(Mainland) Code
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ShiYong CCDOS (Shi2Yong4, practical), supports MS-Word 4.0-5.5, WP
5.0-5.1, dBASE III-IV, FoxPro and the most other character oriented
standard western applications for DOS. Specially concepted for mixed
(Chinese/English/German, or traditional/simplified) applications.
Driver for sentense oriented Pinyin input available. Ask for details:

Christine Hu
Flemingstr. 127
D-8000 Munich 81
Germany
++49 89 982237

Hopely this does help you somehow ...

Bo