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HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set)
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 2:09 pm
by hounwai
Hello guys & gals, i'm hounwai.
i need help on HKSCS. anyone who know about this pls email me at
ahounwai@hotmail.com
urgently need info about HKSCS.
i would like to know whether a computer running under Windows 3.1, 95/98/Me or WinNT/2000 (English version) with Richwin or NJStar (chinese character viewer) installed will be able to decode HKSCS.
thanks in advance.
hope to hear from anyone of u.
hounwai
Re: HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set)
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:15 pm
by lisa c
Try
www.zhongwen.com computing forum
Re: HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set)
Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 1:48 am
by James Campbell
If you use a Win2000 or later system, your BIG5 and Unicode should already include the characters needed to write Cantonese. All you need is an IME for input.
I remember when using Win98 I had downloaded the font extension from the internet. I think I still have the installation files resident in one of the folders on my computer, if you want it, write to me.
Unfortunately at the time, I had already made some font extensions of my own in some unused areas, and when I installed the Cantonese, it used the exact same area of the font mapping and wiped out all the other work I had done.
Also, I recommend if you're doing multilingual computing, never use an English-only operating system. Foreign language versions of Windows always include an English version PLUS the foreign language version on the system. In addition, you'll have a lot of extra added (bilingual) benefits. With a Chinese language version, it also makes computing in double-byte languages like Japanese and Korean very easy as well, without needing so many extra installed parts that may not be compatible with each other.
Re: HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set)
Posted: Thu May 16, 2002 9:41 am
by Thomas Chan
hounwai wrote:
>
> Hello guys & gals, i'm hounwai.
> i need help on HKSCS. anyone who know about this pls email me
> at
>
ahounwai@hotmail.com
> urgently need info about HKSCS.
> i would like to know whether a computer running under Windows
> 3.1, 95/98/Me or WinNT/2000 (English version) with Richwin or
> NJStar (chinese character viewer) installed will be able to
> decode HKSCS.
No version of NJStar handles HKSCS, no matter what platform. As for
RichWin, I once used an older version which supported GCCS (an older
version of HKSCS) even on something as old as an English Win 95
platform.
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu