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Conference hanzi::asian_products

Title:Asian Language Software and Hardware Products Information
Notice:Welcome to the world of multibyte characters. Read 1.*.
Moderator:HGRD01::DAVIDLEE
Created:Tue Feb 23 1988
Last Modified:Thu Apr 10 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:415
Total number of notes:1383

415.0. "Traditional Characters from HANZI ?" by ZPOVC::MONGKIA () Tue Apr 01 1997 23:01

    My customer who is running OpenVMS/HANZI 6.2 and RDB/HANZI on
    AlphaServers now. They would like to be able to use "Traditional
    Chinese" character set due to the company has expanded to Taiwan and
    Malaysia.
    
    Question :
    
    1. Is it possible for their OpenVMS/HANZI to support Traditional
    Chinese (at least able to print in traditional form) ?
    
    2. If the answer for 1 is no, what is the best alternative ? (plse
    don't advise them to go for SUN)
    
    3. Is LPS32 supported by DCPS/HANZI ?
    
    Thanks,
    MK Tan, DEC Singapore
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415.1STAR::CHANThu Apr 03 1997 00:5418
	RE: -1

	I assume that your customer would like to have a system which
	can support both Traditional and Simplified Chinese character 
	concurrently.

	Q1: Does not support.

	Q2: I would like to suggest that you could ask the customer to set 
	    up a separate system for supporting Traditional Chinese character 
	    to serve Taiwan and Malaysia. We have a series of products support 
	    Traditional Chinese character as same as Simplicity  Chinese 
	    character support.  

	Q3: Does not support LPS32. For details, please refer Note 414.1.


	- Chris
415.2Or utility for conversion ?ZPOVC::MONGKIAThu Apr 03 1997 13:0215
    Chan,
    
    Thanks for the prompt reply.
    
    With Hong Kong returning back to Mainland real soon, I am sure there
    are many such demands for the support of both Simplified and
    Traditional Chinese characteres. Perhaps we should come out with
    utility in either VMS/HANZI or VMS/HANYU to convert Traditional to
    Simplified characters and vice versa ? The TwinBridge software on PC's
    way of handling both character sets is what many Chinese users are
    looking for. Hope that someone is still interested to enhance our Asian
    products.
    
    Thanks and best regards,
    MK Tan
415.3SMURF::WENDYThu Apr 10 1997 03:145
    At the very least your customer should not go to SUN since DIGITAL UNIX
    provides the support you need plus more! :-)
    
    wendy
    UNIX Engineering/I18N Technical Director