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Realizing that most of you do not have Chinese system installed on your machine, we have presented a lot of the contents as graphical images (i.e. in GIF formats) to allow your reading using your favorite graphic browser (such as Netscape and Mosaic). However, as these image files tend to be large, viewing contents this way can be quite slow.
Viewing actual contents by text format is much faster (20 to 40 times), but requires you to install additional software. The procedure of installing additional software is actually very simple. To help you do that, we provide you with what we hope to be an easy-to-follow step-by-step instruction below.
Before anything, determine which system you are running on:
Reading Chinese with Netscape
With Netscape and a Macintosh, you can read Chinese on the WWW. The instructions below are for Netscape 1.1N. The setup is similar for later versions, for which Netscape has published complete support documentation for International users.
To read Chinese on the web with a Macintosh, you'll need:
To set Netscape preferences to read unsimplified-character Chinese WWW pages:
You can test your setup by connecting to this page see if the characters display correctly.
To read simplified characters, choose an unsimplified font.
Download or upgrade your to IE 5.0 and you can automatically read Chinese font.
OUTLINE
Step 1. Make sure you have a decompression program such as pkunzip.exe.
Step 2. Download software that will give you Chinese browsing capability.
Step 3. Decompress the software you downloaded.
Step 4. Install the software.
Step 5. Reconfigure your Web browser for Chinese Font.
Step 1.Typically the software is stored on a machine in compressed format, after you download the software, you need to decompress it. As a result, you need to make sure first you have the decompression program: pkunzip.exe. You can get this program via
Note: If you are using a Netscape Navigator, you will recieve a UNKNOWN FILE TYPE massege. Please click on the SAVE TO DISK buttom whenever you download a file.
Step 2. Now you are ready to download the software for Chinese system. There are two popular softwares for you to try: (Attention Windows NT users: Union Way seems to work well under Windows NT, but NOT TwinBridge)
1. The newly released demo version of Union Way version 4.0. Currently the demo version is available via Union Way's download page
2. The newly released demo version of TwinBridge Chinese Partner 4.0. Currently the demo version is available via ftp://ftp.ni.net/cust/twinbridge/download/chinese/demo/cp40demo.exe.
Note if the program you just downloaded is of file type zip, it means it is in compressed format. To decompress it, you will use the decompression program we downloaded in step 1. Before you start, create a new directory, copy the zip file we downloaded in step 3 over.
Step 3. Now we are ready to decompress it. From DOS prompt, issue the following command under the directory you just created: pkunzip uwdbm40b.zip (if you have downloaded Union Way's software) or pkunzip cp401dmo.zip (if you have downloaded TwinBridge's software). This decompress the file into several files.
Step 4. Install the software by running the following program from either the "Program Manager" or "File Manager"in Windows System:
Step 5. Now you are just one step away from reading Chinese characters online! Start your favorite Web browser.
For Example, if you are using Netscape's Navigator, select Options->Preferences on your menu bar. In the "Preferences" dialog box, set Set Preferences On on top of the dialog box to Fonts and Colors. It will switch the dialog box to the Preferences dialog box for Fonts and Colors. Now click on the first Choose Font... button, the "Choose Base Font" dialog box appears.
a) If you are using Union Way, scroll down the pop up menu for fonts to (BIG-5) UWCDEF, click on ok button. Click on OK button to leave Preferences dialog box.
b) If you are using TwinBridge, scroll down the pop up menu for fonts to Chn System, and click on ok button. Click on OK button to leave Preferences dialog box.
How to Read Chinese under UNIX?
You can use Netscape 2.0 to browse information in Chinese (Big5) on Web under X-Window environment.
If you use 'cxterm', you can just use Chinese fonts that you had already installed for it to work with Netscape. But you need to do some font alias mapping to make Netscape be able to find these fonts.
The basic idea is that Netscape try to find fontnames end with
big5-0
big5.et-0
big5.et.ext-0
big5.etext-0
big5.hku-0
big5.hku-1
big5.pc-0
After you start up your X Window, you can check whether your environment confirm to this or not by following command:
xlsfonts | grep big5
ftp ftp.netscape.com Username: ftp Password: ftp> cd pub/navigator/3.01/unix ftp> bin ftp> get netscape-v301-export.sparc-sun-solaris2.4.tar.gz ftp> bye
zcat netscape-v301-export.sparc-sun-solaris2.4.tar.gz | tar xvf
# At your home directory mkdir app-defaults mv Netscape.ad app-defaults/Netscape setenv XAPPLRESDIR $HOME/app-defaults
taipei16.bdf
taipei24.bdf
taipei24k.bdf
taipeil24.bdf
The original site carry it is ftp://ifcss.org/pub/software/fonts/big5/bdf
If you are the system adminstrator, you can install these fonts to
the system font directory. You can find out the fonts path of your system by
xset q
# in your home directory mkdir xfonts cd xfonts # move fonts to this directory. # create or update 'fonts.dir' by mkfontdir .
The content of 'fonts.dir' in this directory should have following lines:
taipei16.bdf taipei16
taipei24.bdf taipei24
taipeik24.bdf taipeik24
taipeil24.bdf taipeil24
Please add following mapping into your 'fonts.alias' file:
-taipei-ming16-medium-r-normal-*-16-160-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipei16 -taipei-ming-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipei24 -taipei-kai-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipeik24 -taipei-li-medium-r-normal-*-24-240-*-*-*-*-big5-0 taipeil24
Then add this new font directory into your font path by
xset fp+ $HOME/xfonts
You can check whether the font is installed successfully or not by
xlsfonts | grep big5
It's better to put 'setenv' for XAPPLRESDIR in your '.cshrc' file and 'xset fp+' command in your '.xinitrc' file.
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