08 Mar 2008 12:28:06 | Rosie Wang
To read Chinese Online is becoming easire these days.
If you use the latest Internet Explorer (V4.0 or later) or
Netscape Navigator (Version 4 or later), you don't have to
install any special program to read Chinese characters because
both of these browsers can support Chinese natively. The same is
true with other browsers, e.g. Firefox or Mozilla.
If you use previous versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator, you should consider upgrading your browser version.
You can also download and install Chinese Font or download
Microsoft's free language packs and input methods for Simplified
and Traditional Chinese.
Installing the Chinese language packs will automatically set up
Internet Explorer to recognize Chinese.
With Netscape, you need do a little configuration:
From Netscape's main menu, select "Edit" -> "Preferences". In
the new window, select "Appearance" and "Fonts". First select
"Simplified Chinese" for the encoding, and choose "MS Song" or
"MS Hei". Select "MingLiU" for "Traditional Chinese" encoding.
Most of the time, you browser should automatically detect pages
with Chinese content and display them properly. But in case your
browser does not do that, you need manually adjust the setting
to enable your browser to view Chinese characters by changing
character encoding.
In Internet Explorer menu, click View to select encoding. If you
don't know what the page encoding is, you may have to experiment
with the encoding options.
The most common character encodings are GB (for simplified),
Big5( for traditional), and UTF-8 (for both - also known as
unicode).
On Netscape, you can change from "View" and then "Character Set"
on the main menu as stated above.
To check if your computer is configured properly, try to read
this page:
http://www.learn-chinese-language-online.com/chinese-grammar.html
. If you can read the Chinese characters on this page,
congratulation!
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