Hallo Ming-Li,
On Sat, 27 May 2000 06:27:58 -0700 GMT (27.05.2000, 21:27 +0800 GMT),
Ming-Li wrote:
ML> What you want (if I understand you correctly) is for the whole
ML> Windows to display English by default, which is impossible in
ML> C-Windows.
Thanks; I already decided to install an English Windows but thought
this might not be necessary.
While TB is in English, the day of the week, and the month, are
diaplayed as in Chinese. While I can read that much, it is not
aestthetic to much scripts and languages. I understood in your earlier
posting that you can switch this to English somehow. I guess I was
mistaken.
ML> If you only use Chinese sparingly, like viewing some Chinese
ML> web pages, then you'll be better off using English Windows
ML> and install IE's Chinese display/input support. Office 97
ML> and 2000 and some other software support the same extension
ML> as well. But if you need to read/write Chinese email, then
ML> it's another matter. The Bat! (the current version) can't
ML> do that. In fact, very few email programs can.
The Bat! actually *can* do it. If you run TB! under C-Win as I do,
Chinese messages are displayed correctly. My problem is that all
high-ASCII characters (often used in German language) are interpreted
as the first byte of a Chinese character. Anyway, no problems reading
Chinese with TB (except for the actual cognitive "reading" <g>).
For writing, you toggle Chin/Eng with the crtl-shift shortkey. I have
often asked my secretary to write a few things (like names of persons
or places) into my otherwise English emails.
Even though message encoding says ISO-8859-1 in my messages headers,
they are actually in Big5.
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Cheers,
Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998
using an Intel Celeron 366Mhz, 128MB RAM
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