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What is RichWin?
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- A Chinese language processing software.
- An add-on program that operates on Windows environment with many popular application software such as Netscape Communicator, MS Office products, etc. to support input and display of Chinese characters
Why RichWin?
- supports multiple encodings of Chinese characters (Big-5, GB, GBFT, etc.);
- supports display of Japanese characters (JIS or Shift JIS code) and Korean characters(KCS code);
- many other desirable features such as encoding conversion between two encoding
How to have characters in a document displayed or printed properly?
- Documents with Chinese Characters
- Documents with diacritics or special characters
- Documents with Japanese or Korean characters
- 1. Documents with Chinese characters
- Run RichWin, if it's not turned on already, and change the display mode to Big5 or GB code.
- Hong Kong and Taiwan area usually use Big-5 codes, while mainland China uses GB code.
- To change the display mode to Big5 or GB, click the leftmost button of
then select:
Big5 or - Big5(JT) for simplified characters
GBFT or - GB for simplified characters
- 2. Documents with diacritics or special characters
- When RichWin is turned on, some diacritics or special characters in a document (e.g. retrieved Innopac record using QvtTerm with WYSE/VT220 terminal type, articles from e-journals or online newspapers, etc.) may be displayed or printed as funny or unrecognizable characters.
- For example:
- With RichWin ON, a document containing diacritics is displayed with funny characters:
- With RichWin OFF, the document will be displayed or printed properly:
- To turn off RichWin, click the leftmost button of
and select the last item on the pull down menu:
- 3. Documents with Japanese / Korean
- Run RichWin, if it's not turned on already, and change the display mode to ShiftJIS (or JIS) for Japanese; and KSC for Korean.
- When using Netscape to read Japanese resources, select "View" -> "Character set" (or "Encoding") -> "Japanese (Auto-Detect)".
- To change the display mode to ShiftJIS or JIS or KSC, click the leftmost button of
then select:
ShiftJIS 
JIS 
KSC 
More Information on RichWin
- Read More About RichWin
- HomePage of RichWin
- A Chinese language processing software.
RichWin
(Japanese),
(Korean)
June, 2004