Once these fonts have been downloaded, IE and OE will show Unicode UTF-8 encoded data by taking the appropriate characters from these fonts.
The IME's can be removed by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
For the English versions Windows XP, you can activate the IME and installation of Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts as follows.
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) refers to the languages of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, though occasionally they will mean the countries China, Japan and Korea respectively, and therefore refer to the 'locale' of the script in question.
These countries use non-alphabetic characters based on the traditional Chinese script ( 
) "hanzi", otherwise known in Japan as "kanji", and by Koreans as "hanja". For simplicity, we shall call them "characters". We can further differentiate the forms of the same characters as 'glyphs'. A 'glyph', therefore, is a variant of a character and varies depending on locale.
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These ASCII characters may vary in appearance from machine to machine, and platform to platform, but the underlying binary code is the same, therefore, there exists portability between machines running different software operating system platforms.
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Unicode uses three bytes to represent the code for one CJK character.
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)
and simplified form "jianti" ( 
). The characters represented so far are all fanti forms.
However, the simplified form of the characters 'jianti' ( ) is
( 
). Other than hanzi, more modern letters for phoneticising Mandarin Chinese (and extended to other Chinese languages and dialects) are sometimes used, known as zhuyin fuhao ( 
) to indicate the pronunciation of uncommonly used characters.
). There are also extentions to
the Big5 character set used in Hong Kong for local dialectal characters, for example Hong
Kong Government Chinese Character Set (HK GCCS) has an 3049 character extention. This set was expanded and renamed the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS).
) or GB. It adopted the use of
simplified characters shortly after the socialist government came to power. However,
Singapore Chinese also use simplified characters. Simplified characters are derived from
handwritten forms of traditional characters, and a great many traditional characters are
left unchanged after its inception because they were never simplified.
Another encoding method used for simplified Chinese is known as 'Hanzi'. It is primarily used as a seven bit code, that is, it is entirely composed of characters from the original ASCII. It is easy to spot, since it always begins with the tild and curly brackets, and ends in a curly bracket and another tilde.
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In general, Japanese contains characters that may not be found in the Chinese encodings.
These Japanese only characters are mainly 'kokuji' ( 
) or national
characters of Japan. These occur mainly in the names of birds, fishes and other animals. Japanese has two syllabaries, known as hiragana
( 
) and katakana ( 
) respectively,
(with each word in its own syllabary).
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), for their language
made up of basic letters known as jamo ( 
).
There are also characters solely found only in Korean, known as gugja
( 
) which mainly appears in placenames.
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There are two forms of Unicode encodings, UTF-7 which is a 7-bit encoding, and UTF-8 which is an 8-bit encoding.
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I wish to thank Thomas Chan for his suggestions and the link to the HKSCS site.
This page was created on Wednesday 6th December 2000.
It was last updated on Monday 31st March 2003.