Chinese for Windows

 
 
Installing the Chinese Fonts on Your Computer

To install the Chinese fonts, you must have the Windows CD that came with your computer. The following instructions are for Windows XP.

   
  1. Open Regional and Language Options in the Control panel.
   
  2. On the Languages tab, under Supplemental language support, select the Install files for East Asian languages check box.
   
 
 
  3. Click OK or Apply. You will be prompted to insert the Windows CD-ROM. After the files are installed, you must restart your computer.
   
4. After you install the East Asian languages fonts, you must add the individual languages for which you want to enter and display text. To do so, open the Regional and Languages Options in Control Panel again. On the Languages Tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
 
   
 
  5. Under Installed services, click Add. In the Input language list, click the language for the keyboard layout or Input Method Editor you want to add. For Simplified Chinese select Chinese (PRC) and for Traditional Chinese select Chinese (Taiwan).
   
 
     
  6. Since there are a variety of Input Method Editors (IME) for Chinese, you must choose the method you would like to use. Select the Keyboard layout/IME checkbox and make your selection from the drop-down list. You may add more than one Input method, but you must add each one separately. When finished, click OK.
   
   
     
  7. Once you have completed these steps, you will notice a blue "EN" (standing for English) in the lower right corner of your computer screen. If you click on it, you will see the new Chinese options you just added. Once you are in an application such as Microsoft Word, select the Chinese option and begin to type.
     
   
     
  8. If you select "Show the Language bar" at the bottom of the menu, the language bar will appear at the top of your screen.
     
   
 
 
Setting up Netscape to View Sites in Chinese

To view Web Sites in Chinese, you must first install the Chinese language fonts on your computer (see above). Once installed, you can configure Netscape to use these fonts when necessary.

 
  1. While in Netscape, go to the Preferences option under the Edit menu.
   
  2. Under Appearance, select Fonts.
   
 

3. Click on the "For the Encoding" button and select either Traditional or Simplified Chinese. You will need to perform these steps for each of these.
   
   

   
  4. Make sure that Chinese fonts are selected for both Variable and Fixed width fonts and click OK. If they are not selected, simply select them from the font menus. Next click on the button which states "Use my fonts, overriding page-specified fonts". Click OK.
   
   
   
  5. You can test these fonts by visiting a Chinese Web site such as http://www.hsm.com.cn/ to view Simplified characters or http://dailynews.sina.com/ to view Traditional. You should be able to view these pages in Chinese.
   
  6. If you visit a site that you know is in Chinese yet your browser is displaying nonsense characters, select the Character Set option under the View menu and select Traditional or Simplified Chinese. Sometimes the browser does not recognize that it should display a Chinese font, and choosing the Character Set will help it to do so.
 
   
 
 
Setting up Internet Explorer to View Sites in Chinese
To view Web Sites in Chinese, you must first install the Chinese language fonts on your computer (see above). Internet Explorer should already be configured to automatically use the correct fonts when needed. To check, try the following:
 
  1. While in Internet Explorer, go to the Internet Options under the Tools menu.
   
 
  2. Click on the Fonts tab at the bottom.
   
 
  3. Click on the Language Script bar, and select either Traditional or Simplified Chinese. Make sure that a Chinese Font displays.
   
 
 
Reading and Sending E-mail in Chinese using Bates Web Mail
To use Chinese in your e-mail, you must first install the Chinese language fonts on your computer (see above). When using Webmail for Chinese, you may find that the results vary. Try the suggestions below, however, due to different encoding methods, you may have difficulty reading some Chinese messages. If you have messages that you cannot read, contact Bill Maiert in the Language Resource Center.
 
  1. You must use Internet Explorer to read and send Chinese e-mail
   
  2. Log in to Webmail at webmail.bates.edu.
   
  3. To read messages that were sent to you in Chinese, you must change the Character Set to Chinese after you've logged into Webmail. To do this, select the Character Set option under the View menu in Internet Explorer and select Chinese. After doing this, your browser will refresh and any Chinese messages will appear in Chinese.
   
 

 

 

   
  4. To compose and send a message, click on the compose button in Webmail. Choose Chinese from the blue language menu bar in the lower right corner of Windows and type your message. Since you've already selected the Character Set in step 3, you shouldn't need to do this again, however, if you try typing in Chinese and it doesn't work, try changing the Character Set to Chinese again. Click send when finished.