Traditional Big 5 Chinese in Postscript Type1/3 format

Hi I'm trying to acquire some Traditional Big 5 Chinese (zh_TW.BIG5) fonts that are in PS Type1 or Type 3 format. The Solaris 7 installation CD contains these types of fonts for Simplified Chinese but they don't have it for Traditional. I've checked the Solaris 8 CD as well but no luck there. Can someone tell me if they have such files?
Thank you for your time!

I'm having a similar problem.
In my Entourage -> Preference -> Read, I set "Big5" as the default encoding for unread msg. However, whenever I open an msg, always I have to manually select "Format -> Char set-> Big5" to have the msg displayed correctly. When I move to the next msg, the char set will go back to "automatically" instead of the char set I just selected.
Very annoying, does anyone has a permanent solution for this? Appreciate it!

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Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters couldn't be displayed!

Hi all,
Recently I installed an Oracle 9i Database Server (9.0.1).
Problem regarding the globalization support issue was encountered after the installation of Oracle 9i Database Server. Parameters in NLS table had been checked that the language is initially set to AMERICAN, territory is set to AMERICA and the character set is UTF8.
Since traditional and simplified chinese characters must be required for the HK server, it is believed that the above parameters should be altered to TRADITIONAL CHINESE / SIMPLIFIED CHINESE, HONG KONG and ZHT16MSWIN950 / ZHS16CGB231280 respectively.
I tried to alter the NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS, but its not working; should the NLS_SESSION_PARAMETERS be changed instead? I also tried this one, changes is taken place but the chinese characters still couldn't be displayed, just bunches of 亂碼 (meaningless codes) instead.
Another piece of information is that the Oracle server is installed on the basis of Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition, should the Language for non-Unicode programs (which is in the Advanced page of the Regional and Language Settings) be configured to Chinese (HKSAR)? Various combinations, in terms of English (US), Chinese (HKSAR), Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Taiwan), had been taken turns to test for the results. However, same results happened.
Hence, how should we configure? Please advice us.
P.S.# It is known that this question should be placed in the "Globalization Support" forum, I have done that; however, it is hoped that I could seek more advice in here.
Thx in advance.
Karen

Karen,
Setting up such an environment requires some sophistication and know how. I would advise reading though the Globalization Support Guide and som of the papers on the Globalization Home Page http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/globalization/index.html
before randomly attempting to change parameters. If your requirement is to store and retrieve both TRADITIONAL and SIMPLIFIED CHINESE then your database needs to be Unicode (UTF-8). Designing an application that allows you to easily access multilingual data requires careful design and planning. If you are simply trying to quickly display data you have in your database you might want to use iSQL*PLUS which is browser based and will allow you to display Unicode data. It might also be helpful to take a look at the following paper: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/globalization/pdf/globalization-best-practices.PDF

How to download traditional and simplified Chinese fonts in PS? [was:Hello, is it possible]

to download traditional and simplified Chinese fonts and install them into Photoshop (if I can find a site that will allow me to download them)? Would I just download them and install them to my Windows font folder and Photoshop would display them under its font tool just like it would Times Roman, Verdana, etc?
Thank you.
Steve

Yes, fonts are handled by the system. Depending on what type of fonts you may however still need to change your system language and region settings to actually get access to them...
Mylenium

Convert select traditional or simplified chinese not working

After upgraded mountian lion,
convert select traditional or simplified chinese not working,
it works fine in lion.
Please help!
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Please use the search function about this. This has been discussed many times.

Need advice on whether to build a traditional database layout or a property bag lookup format for new application?

Hi,
This may be a little of an open ended question, but Id like to ask the crowd as I have a delema to whether or not to use a standard database design or a propertybag/flatfile format and transform the information within my application?
THE SITUATION (EXAMPLE)
We have a table called "people". And these persons can either be a basic contact or be associated to several other "types" such as a member, a representative, a staff member with login details etc. These types are expected to expand
and may need additional fields adding to them.
A: The old fashioned poor approach is to create a table with all the unused columns and simply ignore what we don't need.
B: After normalisation, the traditional approach would be to have link table and each "type" would have its own table with the separate columns needed.
C: Lasty, we have recently done some projects using matrix and property type lookup tables (e.g. a reference table to hold the persons ID, then the columns held in a single properties table of "propertyname and proteryvalue". When the application
"gets" the record it can return a completely dynamic length column list based on how many properties it finds. I.e. Person 1 have only their email address and name in the property bag so the datatable returned in code would be 2-3 columns (inc
id). Person 2 has lots of properties and so their datatable would be returned in code with many more columns.
I hope that makes sense?
THE DILEMA
If I was only using our application to access the data then I could setup a function library to control the access, but I asl want to use report editors (maybe SQL report Services?). And the customer would get completely confused to know which field
is what and how to get the data out? I also want to avoid situations where the application expects someone to have a property (column) and its not there? It may make a difference if I tell you that they will aslo have tables holding heiracrchical
groupings too, which will already make it hard for the customer to use in SQL Report Services. Should I use the traditional approach and the metastable (property bag) approach?
PROS AND CONS of B:
+Traditional approach and most tools that need to access SQL directly will work, assuming the customer understands the column names properly
-A single field change would likely involve all levels of MVC (model, Controller, View) so 3 times the work (maybe 3 people if using specialist SQL Admin, C# Dev and Interface Designer)
-New person types require a whole new table to be linked in
-Global searches need to constantly be updated to include other tables columns
+Our development suite (Visual Studio) allows more visual designing in the IDE when the table is fixed
PROS AND CONS of C:
-Cant see the record easily in SQL directly
-Would have to make any report editor use datasets within an the app rather than direct to SQL directly, making the whole system dependant on a proprietary APP control system (although we would control this anyway)
+Global searches are very good, as all properties are held in a column
-The property table would grow quote big, so needs good indexing
+Any new fields or field groups (types) would simply be a configuration setting in the app (not any manual admin)
+If any presentation of data changes where needed this is likely to only require the controller (developer) on MVC to input changes (assuming the interface expects dynamic fields)
-The tables to show to the user through the app would need to handle dynamic columns and so would need to have generic auto formatting in code (which we could not see in the designer (Visual Studio) and set exactly as required). Slight guess work, but we
could hold setting in the property bag to indicate how to show that property.
A little bit war and peace, but your thoughts?
Kindest
Martin
PS: Some of you may raise the option of stored procedures, in order to do the transform without SQL still. Would this be viable and still work with SQL Report Services?

You ARE using a RDBMS and you appear to intend to use standard development tools. Therefore you will probably regret any attempt to move away from a properly normalized relational database. And that does not begin to address any performance
aspects.
Option A really should not be considered an option. That is not proper normalization for a relational database.
As best I can tell option C is simply an EAV (Entity Attribute Value) model - and you can search on that term for discussions about the pros and cons.
Lastly, AFAIK reports / SSRS can use stored procedures as information sources - that really isn't a design issue. However, if you choose option C then you most likely will be forced to use procedures for reporting purposes.

A big problem of Generate report with PDF format....Urgent

I want to generate a report with pdf format through one java file, it have two page 1)gen_report.jsp 2) report_gen.java , the compliation was failed. However, i don't what the problem is .... i hope anyone can help me as it is very argent for me ....Thanks a lot
1)gen_report.jsp
<table id="AutoNumber1">
   <tr>
     <td background="images/top5movie.png">
     <p align="center"> </p>
    </td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
   <td >
      <div align="center">
        <table id="AutoNumber2" >
              <form method="GET" action="../report_gen" name="report_gen" target="_blank" onSubmit="javascript:return checkr1(this)">
                <tr>
                  <td ><b>Report Description:</b></td>
                  <td >This report is to show the top five popular movies in cinemix for a period </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><b>Data scope:</b></td>
                  <td >Start from
                  <input type="text" name="start" value="2003-1-1" >to
                  <input type="text" name="end" value="2006-1-1" ></td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                  <td><b>Data processing:</b></td>
                  <td >Show
                    <select name="order_by">
                      <option value="desc" selected>top</option>
                      <option value="asc">bottom</option>
                    </select>
                  5 films</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td> <p align="center">
                      <input type="submit" value="View_Report" name="subm">
                    </p></td>
                </tr>
                <input type="hidden" name="report" value="r1">
              </form>
              <form method="GET" action="../report_gen" name="report_gen" target="_blank" onSubmit="javascript:return checkr2(this)">
                <input type="hidden" name="report" value="r2">
              </form>
            </table>
     </div>
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>Then my java code is here
report_gen.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
// chart and pdf out
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation;
import org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.*;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYBarDataset;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;
import org.jfree.data.statistics.SimpleHistogramDataset;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeries;
import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeriesCollection;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.DefaultFontMapper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfTemplate;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.*;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
public class report_gen extends HttpServlet
   private final String titles[] = {"Top Five popular movies ",
                    "Financial cirumstance of cinemas",
                    "Distribution of time segment",
                    "Distribution of favourite movie type"
   private final String descs[] = {"This report is to show the top five popular movies in cinemix for a period ",
               "This report is to show the financial circumstance of each cinema site ",
               "This report is to analysis the customer when is the most visit time ",
               "This report is to analysis the customer which type of movie do they watch the most"
    private final String bigTitle = "Cinemix";
    private final String driver = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
    private final String url= "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cinemix";
    private final String userID = "abc";
    private final String passwd = "abc";
    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException
      super.init(config);
   protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
   throws ServletException, IOException
      final int width = 550;
     final int height = 200;
/ title font (centre and report title)
     final Font fTitle0 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 42, Font.BOLD);
     final Font fTitle1 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 30, Font.BOLD);
          // centre name:
    final String title0 = bigTitle;
   // Default category for DefaultCategoryDataset
   final String cat = "data";
   Connection conn;
JFreeChart chart;
   String title1     = "xyz Report";
   String chartDesc = "description";
   String notes[] = new String[4];
   String chartTitle = "so bad this is title";
   String chartXTitle = "this is x";
   String chartYTitle = "this is y.";
   String report = request.getParameter("report");
   int max=-10000;
   int min=10000;
   int j=0;
// do some basic checking
   if (report == null || report.equals(""))
     report = "-1"; // this course unknow report error message
     String start   = request.getParameter("start");
     String end = request.getParameter("end");
     String order_by = request.getParameter("order_by"); // ToDo: check invalid string
       int topN = 5;
    String order = (order_by.equals("desc")) ? "Top" : "Last";
   String inv[] = {"08:30", "09:30", "10:30", "11:30", "12:30", "11:30", "12:30", "13:30", "14:30", "15:30", "16:30", "17:30","18:30","19:30","20:30","21:30","22:30","23:30"};
     int inv_val[] = new int[inv.length - 1];
     try
        Class.forName(driver).newInstance();
         catch(Exception e)
        printE("Cannot load mysql database driver!", response);
          e.printStackTrace();
           return;
       try
             conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, userID, passwd);
              if (report.equals("r1")) { // report 1
           DefaultCategoryDataset dataset = new DefaultCategoryDataset();
          Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
          String sql = "select *,count(f.Name),f.Name from film f, filmDetail fd, ticket t where f.startDate > '" + start + "' and f.endDate < '" + end + "'and fd.filmID = f.filmID and fd.filmDetailID = t.filmDetailID group by f.name order by fd.filmDetailID asc limit '" +topN+"'";
          ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
        while (rs.next())
       if (rs.getInt("fd.filmDetailID") > max) max = rs.getInt("fd.filmDetailID");
     if (rs.getInt("fd.filmDetailID") < min) min = rs.getInt("fd.filmDetailID");
      j++;
       ataset.setValue(rs.getInt("fd.filmDetailID"), cat,rs.getString("f.Name"));
       title1     = titles[0];
     chartDesc = descs[0];
     chartTitle = order + " " + topN + " popular movie";
      chartYTitle = "Box Office record";
      chartXTitle = "Film Name";
      gender = " ";
      chart = ChartFactory.createBarChart(chartTitle, chartXTitle,   chartYTitle, dataset,PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, false, true, false);
    else
          print("Error: I don't inderstand your request!", response);
     return;
       catch (SQLException e)
     printE("Cannot open database connection? <br>", response);
     // printE(e.toString);
e.printStackTrace();
return;
     response.setContentType("application/pdf");
     Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 5, 5, 5, 5);
    try
         PdfWriter writer;
     writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, response.getOutputStream());
    HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase("Page: "), true);
     footer.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
document.setFooter(footer);
               footer.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
               // step 3
               document.open();
               document.add(getHeader(title0, title1, start, end, gender, order, topN, chartDesc));
               document.add(printChart(chart, writer));
               document.add(getFooter(notes));
          catch(DocumentException de)
               de.printStackTrace();
          // step 5
          document.close();
          return;
     }// end doGet()
     /** Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
      * @param request servlet request
      * @param response servlet response
     protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
          throws ServletException, IOException
          // processRequest(request, response);
     /** Returns a short description of the servlet.
     public String getServletInfo()
          return "Generate reports for " + bigTitle;
     /* To print en error and exit(?) */
     private void printE(Object obj, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException
          response.setContentType("text/html");
          PrintWriter out;
          out = response.getWriter();
          out.print(obj.toString());
          out.close();
          // To-Do: how to force exiting?
     // create data chart
     private PdfPTable getHeader(String title0, String title1, String start, String end, String sex, String order, int topN, String desc)
          Font fTitle0 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 42, Font.BOLD);
          Font fTitle1 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 24, Font.BOLD);
          Font fTitle3 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 12, Font.BOLD);
          Font fValue = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 12, Font.UNDERLINE);
          Paragraph parStartEnd = new Paragraph();
          parStartEnd.add(new Phrase("Data start from:                  ", fTitle3));
          parStartEnd.add(new Phrase(start, fValue));
          parStartEnd.add(new Phrase("     to     ", fTitle3));
          parStartEnd.add(new Phrase(end, fValue));
          Paragraph parGenerateDate = new Paragraph();
          parGenerateDate.add(new Phrase("Report generated at:         ", fTitle3));
          parGenerateDate.add(new Phrase(new java.util.Date().toString(), fValue));
          Paragraph parGender = new Paragraph();
          parGender.add(new Phrase("Current show gender:       ", fTitle3));
          parGender.add(new Phrase(sex, fValue));
          Paragraph parTopN = new Paragraph();
          parTopN.add(new Phrase("Now is showing                 ", fTitle3));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase(order, fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase(" ", fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase(new Integer(topN).toString(), fValue));
          parTopN.add(new Phrase("   record(s)", fTitle3));
          // Start main table
          PdfPTable tblMain = new PdfPTable(1);
          tblMain.getDefaultCell().setBorder(0);
          // Print title
          tblMain.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
          tblMain.addCell(new Paragraph(title0, fTitle0));
          tblMain.addCell(new Paragraph(title1, fTitle1));
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.addCell("");
          // Print headers data
          //tblMain.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
          //tblMain.addCell(parInvoiceNum);
          //tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
          tblMain.addCell(parStartEnd);
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.addCell(parGenerateDate);
          tblMain.addCell("");
          if (sex != " ")
               tblMain.addCell(parGender);
          else if(order != null && topN > 0)
               tblMain.addCell(parTopN);
          else
               tblMain.addCell(" \n");
          tblMain.addCell("");
          tblMain.setWidthPercentage(96);
          tblMain.addCell(new Paragraph("Description of this report:", fTitle3));
          tblMain.addCell(desc);
          tblMain.addCell("\n");
          // Finish main table
          return tblMain;
     // print a chart _directly_ to pdf and return a empty Pdftable...
     public PdfPTable printChart(JFreeChart chart, PdfWriter writer)
          PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
          int width = 550;
          int height = 450;
          PdfTemplate tp = cb.createTemplate(width, height);
          Graphics2D g2d = tp.createGraphics(width, height, new DefaultFontMapper());
          Rectangle2D r2d = new Rectangle2D.Double(0, 0, width, height); //->,
          chart.draw(g2d, r2d);
          g2d.dispose();
          cb.addTemplate(tp, 20, 170);
          // quick method to push down the footer text
          // the only things this method return
          PdfPTable tblDownDown = new PdfPTable(1);
          tblDownDown.getDefaultCell().setBorder(0);
          tblDownDown.addCell(" \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n");
          tblDownDown.addCell(" \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n");
          tblDownDown.addCell(" \n \n \n \n \n \n");
          return tblDownDown;
     public PdfPTable getFooter(String notes[])
          Font fNote = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 14, Font.UNDERLINE);
          Font fComment = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 12, Font.ITALIC);
          Font fTitle1 = FontFactory.getFont("Helvetica", 30, Font.ITALIC);
          // Start footer table
          PdfPTable tblFooter = new PdfPTable(1);
          tblFooter.getDefaultCell().setBorder(0);
          if (notes != null)
               tblFooter.addCell(new Paragraph("Notes:", fNote));
               tblFooter.addCell("");
               tblFooter.addCell("");
               tblFooter.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
               for (int i=0;i<notes.length;i++)
                    if (notes[i] != null)
                         tblFooter.addCell(new Paragraph("" + (i+1) + ". " + notes[i] + "", fComment));
                         tblFooter.addCell("");
                         tblFooter.addCell("");
                    tblFooter.getDefaultCell().setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
                    tblFooter.addCell(new Paragraph("- End of report -", fComment));
                    return tblFooter;
}

Go to the cache directory and see if you can open the report directly from here (not in IE).
I have seen posts on problems with Acrobat Reader Plugin for IE (I believe it was version 6 of Reader).

How to download Chinese (Traditional) Dictionary in iPad Air

From iPad Air Technical Specification, I found:
Dictionary support (enables predictive text and autocorrect)
English (U.S.), English (Canadian), English (UK), English (Australian), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, French (Canadian), French (Switzerland), German, Italian, Japanese (Romaji, Kana), Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
How can I download the Chinese (Traditional) Dictionary in iPad Air and how can I Define highlighted Chinese (Traditional) characters and phrases and / or Translate them into English?
(What I tried was to open Safari, highlight a few words and select Define, then tap Manage. But the displayed Dictionaries do not include Chinese (Traditional).)

Simplified Chinese was a rough re-design of Tradtional Chinese about 1954 by the Communist Party of PRC for political reason, while Traditional Chinese has been developed and refined for 1,500 years. Simplified Chinese is simplistic comparing to the rich context of Traditional one. Simplified Chinese has phrases invented and used specifically by the Communist Party of PRC with words or even meanings twisted while Traditional Chinese embraces a rich knowledge base of wisdom embedded. Thus, when a dictionary of Chinese is to be referred, Tradtional Chinese is my only reliable and trusted source of reputable reference. Simplified Chinese is something similar to Auusie English, Singlish and Hollywood English - good for communication among peers themselves.

What NLS_LANG can handles both Simplified and Traditional Chinese?

Hi,
What values should I put into the NLS_LANG for my 10g db in order to handle English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese?
Can I specify the date format during the db creation?
Thanks

You can try to create a database with database character set AL32UTF8. Then configure the NLS_LANG in client using the same character set. After that, try to input both simplified chinese and traditional chinese into one character column. See what is the results. I guess in AL32UTF8, same character has different encodings for simplified chinese and traditional chinese since they are written different ways.
For date format, I don't think you need to take care the database date format. Internally, Oracle keep date values using numeric type. When I handle date values, I retrieve it using to_char(datavalule, 'yyyy-mm-dd') and update it back using to_date('2006-01-01', 'yyyy-mm-dd') ('2006-01-01' is just an example).
G.B.

No Traditional Chinese Input!!!!

It's an outrage only Simplified Chinese input method is supported. The majority of the US Chinese population, not to mention a very large world population use Traditional Chinese.
Traditional Chinese input methods are already on iPhones and iPod Touch, why doesn't Apple port it to iPad?
Make your opinion known and post followup so Apple will pay attention!

Being able to "read and write both" does not mean the ability to understand it. I'm sure you can "read and write" English, but I'm sure that not everyone in the US knows what "going to the loo" means; hence the cultural difference between the 2 speakers.
I can read and write both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and I've played with the Simplified Chinese on my iPad, being a Traditional Chinese writer, "bee-hive digital" does not mean "Cellular Data" to me in any way shape or form.
Logically, the interface to input would be the same for the iphone and the ipad, where as the iphone does suppose Traditional Chinese. I just don't understand it was left out.

Mac OS 10.5.2 English Version can't identify Chinese font when I access OWA

I have a question that is Mac OS 10.5.2 English Version can't identify Chinese font when I access Microsoft OWA. (OWA version is 2003)
When I access Microsoft OWA, I can see English fonts very well.
But I will see Chinese fonts as ??? and I can not see them at all.
I have tried solutions below:
(1) Install Firefox 2.0.X and Internet Explorer 5.2.2 but still can not see
Chinese fonts at all.
(2) I change the text encoding to BIG-5 code or UTF-8 but still invalid.
Is there anything I can do??

Is there anything I can do??
What is the result with Safari?
Try FireFox 3 beta:
http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/all-beta.html
Try Opera:
http://www.opera.com/
With all browsers make sure you try all Chinese encodings (Traditional Big 5, Traditional Windows, Simplified GB 2312, Simplified GB 18030) plus UTF-8 and (if available) UTF-16.
Also you might ask on the Chinese Mac mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/chinesemac/
Is there a MS forum on Outlook Web Access where you can ask?

Text Encoding (Big 5) not being auto-detected

I just had to reinstall OS X (10.4, the upgraded to 10.4.9) due to a bad crash. In Safari (2.0.4), I tried to view a particular page.
http://www.ettoday.com/
This is a Big-5 (chinese) encoded page; I have my Default Text Encoding set to Western (ISO Latin 1), and the page looks garbled when I try to view it, unless I go to View->Text Encoding->Traditional Chinese (Big 5), and then it displays correctly. My question is, why isn't this encoding being auto-detected and display correctly without manually setting it? Looking at the source, about 22 lines down there is this:
<meta http-equiv="ªF´Ë·s»D³ø" content="text/html; charset=big5">
which looks like the appropriate specification of the encoding. Can someone who has chinese fonts installed please verify this? Is this something Safari is doing wrong, or possibly something got lost in my system reinstall (to tell the truth, I can't recall specifically if this was a problem prior to my crash).
Thanks,
David

Ok, thank you. I gave up trying to understand html right around when the "blink" tag came out, and I just get paranoid every time I do a reinstall that I'm missing some critical part. I like the validator-- never knew about that.
Now, if you do a search on the source code for that ETToday page, somewhere far down you'll come to another section that reads:
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=big5">
blah blah blah
This does appear to be properly formatted, and maybe it's there specficially for English-default browsers. However, perhaps neither Safari nor the validator are picking up this, or maybe it's referring to something else altogether?
thanks,
dave

Chinese Conversion Error. Please Help

I upload some article desc. in Traditional Chinese. System does a translate and the converted Simplified Chinese is not of correct translation. The meaning of the converted word is wrong. Our system is not unicode compliant yet and are using double byte.(rel 4.7)
How can the system convert the input into the correct simplify chinese?
Is there a FM that does a Traditional to Simplified Chinese conversation?

My system is not a unicode based OS. The translation is based on ABAP statement "TRANSLATE" which convert all the small cap hex char to big cap hex char which result in misinterpration of the chinese character.

How to make English and Chinese pdf files searchable?

I have scanned many A4 English and Chinese print-outs into pdf format. How to make these files searchable ? People mention about the OCR issue. Will the installation of Adobe make life easy and manageable?

I know Acrobat does Japanese OCR very well; I can only assume that it works for Chinese as well.
P.S. I just checked: Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) are both language selection options for OCR.

Simplified Chinese format problem in File-File Scenario.

Hi,
I have configured File(FTP) - > File(FTP) Scenario.
I am expecting a Chinese File from Source system which is AS400. I am using the file encoding format UTF-8 while the chinese characters are in GB2312 format. My sender file adapter picks up the file correctly, but SXMB_MONI gives Mapping related Parser error. Kindly Suggest.
Do i need to change some character set or code page? if yes, where should it be done?
Thanks Charu.

Hi,
Under File Encoding, specify a code page.
The default setting is to use the system code page that is specific to the configuration of the installed operating system. The file content is converted to the UTF-8 code page before it is sent.
Permitted values for the code page are the existing charsets of the Java runtime. According to the SUN specification for the Java runtime, at least the following standard character sets must be supported:
US-ASCII
Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, or Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set
ISO-8859-1
ISO character set for Western European languages (Latin Alphabet No. 1), also known as ISO-LATIN-1
UTF-8
8-Bit Unicode Character Format
UTF-16BE
16-bit Unicode character format, big-endian byte order
UTF-16LE
16-bit Unicode character format, little-endian byte order
UTF-16
16-bit Unicode character format, byte order
Check which other character sets are supported in the documentation for your Java runtime implementation.
XML text documents generally contain their own code page description and should be treated as binary data type.
If it is not there the you need write the Adapter module for sender side .
Or you can use the XSLT mapping using CDATA.
see the below link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
Regards
Chilla

Chinese language pack on English-language Nokia E7...

I'm based in Manila and just bought a Nokia E72 cellphone here locally in the Philippines. The unit is labeled E72-1.
I needed a cellphone which can display Chinese-language (both Traditional & Simplified Chinese) characters.
Unfortunately, this E72 I bought here only has the English language.
I've read that the Nokia E72 in Hong Kong / Taiwan / Singapore can display both English and Chinese language.
Is it possible to have the Nokia E72 add a Chinese language pack to display Chinese characters? I really need the Chinese display capability since I regularly have contacts who send me important SMS messages with Chinese characters.
If it's not possible to add the Chinese character display capability, I may be forced to let go of this Nokia E72 and perhaps have to order it instead from Hong Kong (or perhaps Taiwan or Singapore) where I presume the Nokia E72 there will have the English + Chinese display capability built-in.
Although not as important as the Chinese-display capability, I would also like if it could have Chinese language input capability installed on this E72. Is this also possible?
Note that I don't need the phone system menus/commands to be displayed in Chinese language (and actually prefer them to be English language). I only need the phone to display/input Chinese characters in the SMS messages.
Please advise so that I can make a decision as soon as possible, whether to let go of this locally-bought E72 with only English language and instead procure a unit from abroad with the Chinese language display (and input) capability.

I'd like to add some more information which may or may not be exactly useful for those who have the same issue as mine:
Adding as much Chinese as possible on the E72 without Chinese language pack:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/e72/software
Mobile dictionary language packages Translate words into the language of your choice. Add new languages to your pre-installed Mobile dictionary application from Mobile dictionary download page >>Text-to-Speech language packages and voice packages
Let your phone read your messages out loud with Text-to-speech, a tool which allows you to listen to text messages, multimedia messages, and emails. To utilize your Message Reader application download language packages and voice packages at the Text-to-speech page >>
1) Using the above page, one can download Chinese dictionary (Traditional and Simplified Chinese versions available).
It seems that after installing both dictionaries for the Mobile Dictionary application, I can fire up the Mobile Dictionary app and choose Target language to Traditional and Simplified Chinese. The Traditional Chinese characters don't seem to display (some characters display while others are "square boxes"; but the Simplified Chinese characters appear to display correctly.)
So, it appears that the dictionary app can display Chinese characters (at least Simplified Chinese) after installing, although the SMS messages still display "square boxes" where there are Chinese characters.
2) Download Chinese [Mandarin] (or Chinese [HK]) language text-to-speech. Now even though the E72 doesn't display Chinese characters (they show up as square boxes), I can use the msg reader to read those "square boxes" messages and it will read them in Chinese. So at least, that's one way of having Chinese read back to you although the characters themselves can't be displayed. (Set Language Detection to "On" in the Speech settings so it automatically recognizes Chinese; or one could also set the Voice Language to Mandarin Chinese so that even the voice prompts are read in Mandarin Chinese -- however, if Language Detection is set to "Off", it will try to read English SMS messages as per Chinese pinyin -- ie. incorrectly.).
One bug I notice is that for Chinese character email messages (Nokia Messaging). If I set my Language to English, but set the Speech setting of Language Detection to "On", and then activate the "Listen/Read" email messages, then the Msg Reader will hang up the phone. I had to use a utility called JBakTaskman to forcefully close Msg Reader (if don't have JBakTaskman, then have to turn off the phone and turn it back on). So it looks like while the Language Detection can auto-detect Chinese characters in SMS messages and read them properly in Chinese, it seems to hang up in Email Messages.

Traditional Big 5 Chinese in Postscript Type1/3 format

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