Viewing the Chinese text
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it means you need special software to
view the chinese-language characters.
It should look like this:
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Browsing Chinese text on the World Wide Web is possible for most hardware and software combinations. The remaining information on this page is organized by the operating system your computer uses, and by the browsing software you're using. Find the combination that applies to you in the following table, and click to jump to (hopefully!) relevant information.
| Windows | Macintosh | Unix | |
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Netscape Navigator or Communicator |
Use NJSTAR for Windows 95 utility | Use Apple's Chinese Language Kit | Use Navigator for UNIX/X-windows |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | Use
NJSTAR for Windows 95 Utility or Internet Explorer for Windows 95 with Chinese patches |
Use Internet Explorer for Macintosh with Chinese patches | n/a |
| Mosaic | Use NJSTAR for Windows 95 utility | Use chinese patches for MOSAIC / Macintosh | Use MOSAIC / X with chinese language patch for X-windows |
| Lynx | Use NJSTAR for Windows 95 utility | n/a | Use Clynx |
| MIDAS | n/a | n/a | Use the MIDAS WWW x-windows chinese-enabled browser |
| Arena | n/a | n/a | Use chinese language patch for X-windows |
| Opera | Use NJSTAR for Windows 95 utility | n/a | n/a |
Internet Explorer 3.0 Chinese Language kit for Windows 95. Internet Explorer 3.0 has its own special version for viewing Chinese pages. It works well, it's fast and easy to install, and it's free from Microsoft (see link below). Start up Explorer. From the View menu pick Options..., then on the General tab click the Font Settings Button. Set the Explorer default encoding to Chinese Big5, and pick the Ming Li font for both proportional and fixed-width fonts. Download here
Apple Macintosh Chinese language kit is an add on program available from Apple Computer. It runs "on top of" the English-language MacOS. (List price approx US$140)
MIDAS X-windows (UNIX) World-Wide-Web browser with Chinese text support. Download by clicking here,
or download the readme file by clicking here.A Chinese-enabled version of the venerable text-only Lynx browser CLYNX (UNIX) Chinese Big5/GB patch to Lynx 2.5FM. Download by clicking here
Netscape Communicator 4.02B7 for X Windows Chinese language Download by clicking here
International Extensions for Internet Explorer 2.0 Macintosh allows you to view Chinese characters on the Mac without installing the chinese language kit? Download by clicking here
Internet Explorer 2.0 is available for free from http://www.microsoft.com/
Macintosh Pan-Asia Language Environment is a suite of Chinese Japanese Korean (CJK) bitmap fonts/system scripts/extension to enable any MacOS compatible computer with system 7.1 or above including latest MacOS 8.0 to read CJK text in any applications
Macintosh Chinese Mosaic patches Download by clicking here, or, download the readme file here.
You will also need Apple's Chinese Language Kit or MacChina or HanziTalk Multi-Localization Enhancement of NCSA Mosaic X
2.6
his patch kit has been developed for enhancement of NCSA
X Mosaic version 2.6, i.e. localization, parsing a part
of HTML version 3 and netscape HTML extension, and
others. You can switch between char-sets in one Mosaic.
Support ISO 8859-X, KOI-8, GB, HZ,BIG5, KSC & JIS.
Download
by clicking here
NJStar for Windows 95. Easy to install and use. Once loaded, choose "Chinese Big5 FanTi" coding. Download by clicking here.
Other information on reading and writing Chinese on the Internet:
http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/NEW/faq-big5.html
Read Chinese in Net Applications