I cannot see Chinese. What can I do?
Please try IE5(Microsoft Internet Explorer v.5).
It supports fonts for multi-languages.
Once you load the main page,
which is Chinese BIG5 encoded,
IE5 prompts you to get the right font.
Just go for it, and you are all set.
If you are an
anti-MSer,
uh, you have to do some more work. Most of the major browsers do not support
the fonts, although various encodings are supported, like Netscape and MSIE earlier versions.
I suppose that you are in an English environment.
If you are using PC, either Windows 9x, or NTs, you have a few choices,
ChinseGateway uses the same kernel as UnionWay,
but the interface is better.
Twinbridge is the hardest one to use(and more bugs, according to my experience),
but, strangely, it is the most popular one. (I guess their marketing department is
doing a great job --- sell the poorest product successfully). NJStar is developed
in Australia. It has less bugs, but the default font is ugly.
Anyway, if you don't care about inputing Chinese characters,
why bother to use those bugs-everywhere Chinese systems?
At least your system won't freeze or crash if you use MSIE5.
If you are a UNIX user, I remember that "cxterm" is pretty good.
There are a few mirror sites for download. Just use your search engine.
More options can be found at
YouCool
(the old Chinese Cyber City)
How to read Chinese
Why are my data fields in a mess?
Is any data field of yours end with the pipe symbol
|?Most normal
addresses, telephone numbers, or homepage urls do not end with a
|.
Unfortunately, we use Chinese.
It's very likely that a 2-byte Chinese character
ends with |(For example,
the last Chinese character of b74506007's name).
The reason why the ending | causes trouble is because
the double pipe symbols || is used
as field separator for our flat-file database.
To avoid this situation, just simply add a trailing white space.
Then your |
won't mixed with my field separator ||.
Therefore, any | in the middle of a field,
or at the very beginning, is safe.
But all || of your input will be replaced
with "or",
which is NOT transferred back to
|| when your old data is retrieved.
I wish you don't mind this inconvenience. If your data is still in a mess,
please email me.
I will try to fix it as soon as possible.
What about the real work?
It's not true that H.H. said he just provided the space.
Our mailing list is his work. I remember those days when he was testing the
"Email to All", my mail boxes were full of those testing emails.
Besides, he is very supportive.
Before I had anything in hand, he
gave me total write privilege on the homepage, including
implementing server side programs.
You all know how hard it is to let another programmer touch your personal workstation,
especially she had no experiences on CGI programming.
While I was developing the homepage,
we also had countless emails, and phone calls to discuss the functions, security, etc.
He played the role as the supervisor, if I were the hard working Ph.D. student.
When the code was ready for testing, he worked as a QA(Quality Assurance, i.e. bug finder).
Once the work is done, he acted as a good-mannered customer.
If you somehow agree that I have done a good job for this web site,
I would like to give my honor to him. It's a lonely journey to write
a homepage, which we knew in advance wouldn't get hot response.
Which authoring tool did you use?
No, not Frontpage, not Dreamweaver, just a plain text editor. Notepad is its name.
Most pages you saw were generated by the CGI programs I wrote, including the address book,
email list, personal homepage excerpts, to name a few.
