Chinese Language Support on UCS Machines: Basics

June 3, 1997

Chinese Language Support, Basics: 101

The basic needs for sending Chinese Language Email are:

An account on a UCS Galaxy Machine. We recommend Saul08.
A Chinese language input system for your pc
A communications package that understands how to send and receive 2-bit (or 2-octet) character encoding
A sending and display filter for Unix Pine for Chinese character encoding
Pine must be configured to display and send Chinese character encoding

Chinese Language Input Systems for Your PC

We know of two Chinese Language Input Systems for PC's

Costs about $200
Makes a PC Chinese Language Capable
Works with Windows so a document can be created using your own word processing package on your own pc using Chinese characters or Chinese romanization for input

available via ftp:
- ftp://ftp.net.tsinghua.edu.cn/pub/Chinese/RichWin/*
must be ftp-ed, tar xf, built, made before running

Chinese Language Input Systems for Your Mac

We know of only one Chinese Language Input Systems for Macintosh.

Chinese Language Kit
Available at authorized Macintosh dealerships
Costs approximately $200

Chinese Language Sending and Display Filters

We recommend ncf.

The source code is publicly available via ftp from ftp.net.tsinhua.edu.cn/pub/Chinese/ncf/ncf105b.tar.gz
After ftping the source code, it must be made and built on Saul08 to be available in your home directory to use
Instructions available at chinese.ncf.html

Unix Pine Configuration Changes

In order to use ncf, your pine configuratin must be changed to reflect these changes:

character-set = ISO-2022-CN or
character-set =
display-filters = "" /home/userid/ncf/ncf -pgb -i
sending-filters = /home/userid/ncf/ncf -pgb -i