Windows 2000
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Windows 2000 is a Unicode-based operating system with its own CJK fonts
and input method editors but sometimes you may prefer a third-party
CJK enabler, especially if you need
more input methods (e.g. Traditional Chinese Pinyin to Hanzi) or want
to read pre-Unicode encoded documents without changing your default
language setting. Users of Office XP may want to upgrade
to Office XP's new input method editors.
This is how you install the fonts supplied with Windows 2000:
- Double-click My Computer, Control Panel and Regional
Settings. Check Chinese, Japanese and/or Korean under Language
Settings in the General tab and click OK.
You will find the following TTC and TTF files in your
WINDOWS\FONTS directory:
-
| Traditional Chinese
| mingliu.ttc
| MingLiU & PMingLiU
|
| Simplified Chinese
| simsun.ttc
| SimSun & NSimSun
|
| simhei.ttf
| SimHei
|
| Japanese
| msmincho.ttc
| MS Mincho & MS PMincho
|
| msgothic.ttc
| MS Gothic, MS PGothic & MS UI Gothic
|
| Korean
| batang.ttc
| Batang, BatangChe; Gungsuh, GungsuhChe
|
| gulim.ttc
| Gulim, GulimChe; Dotum, DotumChe
|
Windows 2000 Input Method Editors
This is how you add the input method editors after you have installed
the fonts:
- Double-click My Computer, Control Panel and Regional
Settings. Click Input Locales, click Add, associate each input
locale with a keyboard layout and click OK.
Office XP Input Method Editors
I have not tested any of the following applications under Windows 2000.
- Non-expiring shareware
- Reinstallable shareware
- Shareware permanently disabled after the trial period
The least expensive CJK enabler. It supports the following
character sets and
encoding forms:
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| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8 (read-only)
| UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| HZ, ISO-2022
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods.
It has the most input methods of all
CJK enablers. You can input
compounds and phrases, not just individual characters.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8
| MIME, UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| MIME
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| MIME, HZ, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-GB
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-KR
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods. You
can use the Chinese, Japanese and Korean input methods to input UTF-8.
A modular CJK enabler: you can choose what languages and how many fonts
you want to install.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB (= EUC-CN)
| HZ
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022-KR
|