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[LIAO YANG]

There are mainly two sets of Chinese characters. One is GB2312
system, another is Big5 system. GB2312 is mainly used by
MainLand China, Big5 is mainly used by Chinese overseas, Taiwan,
Hongkong. so you need to make decision where is your marketplace
and which one is suitable, or you want to handle them all. But I
guess you need both, since more more Mainland Chinese people are
come to aboard, it will be very soon to become the majority of
Chinese overseas. IE can handle both Chinese character sets, for
Netscape you may need a third party encoding software to handle
the display, but those are free. Here is one you may use:
http://www.njstar.com .
Msql database has no problem to handle chinese Character. 
There are two ways to handle those two Chinese Character sets.
1)Dynamic interface handling,
you may need a convert program to convert those Char sets each
other, there are some programs are free to download, but I don't
know where. Usually it is perl or c++ program.
2)Static web contents.
This is the easy one, you can prepare two sets of your web
contents, and disply them seperately. So totally will be three
sets of them, 2 Chinese and 1 English. There is the way
OSCommerce handles multiple languages.

Hope it may help little bit!

LY


--- Mark Armendariz <nyphp at enobrev.com> wrote:
> Good morning and Happy Tuesday New Yorkers...
>  
> I'm working on an application that requires the interface (as
> well as
> the content) to be in English and Chinese.  Unfortunately, I
> have ZERO
> experience in such things.  I have some ideas as how to
> accomplish this.
> OSCommerce does it by including a php language file in their
> configure
> files, which i think seems to be a good way. I also figured
> maybe
> something with XML or from the database (using php / mysql /
> apache)
>  
> Can anyone here reccommend an efficient way or something to
> look at /
> for to help me move in the right direction?
>  
> Thanks!!!
>  
> Mark Armendariz
> 
> 
> 
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