by Joseph
Chen
This page is Newt's
Cape friendly!!
Last Updated: Feb 5, 1999
The author want to thank Mark Wong and Chih-hung Chen (Klaus) for their generous support. The free software here are dedicated to those ordinary people who are yearning for a better multi-lingual computing envrionment on a better platform (I'm one of them).
The author of the softwares on this page, Joseph Chen, holds the copyright of these. All rights reserved.
Individual user and non-profit organization may install and use these programs
onto her/his computer free of charge provided the computer on which the programs
is installed is exclusively used for non-profit purpose. For other purposes, please
contact the author.
These programs' archives may be distributed freely by non-profit organizations as
long as they are unchanged. Commercial organizations who want to distribute the archives
must first obtain a written permission from Joseph Chen. AOL and CompuServe are excluded
from this commercial limitation and may distribute these archives freely on line.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE SOFTWARES ARE STILL IN TESTING
PHASE, USE THEM AT YOU OWN RISK.
USE OF THESE PRODUCTS, IMPLIES THAT YOU WILL HOLD JOSEPH CHEN HARMLESS TO ANY DAMAGES
CAUSED BY THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PRODUCTS. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT JOSEPH CHEN CANNOT
BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES YOU MAY INCUR BY THE USE OF THESE PRODUCTS.
JOSEPH CHEN PROVIDES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF THESE PRODUCTS, INCLUDING
ITS MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON INFRINGEMENT.
The encoding system on the Newton is UNICODE,
while most of the electronic documents in traditional Chinese language are encoded
with Big5 code. B2Uni is a small extension on the Newton platform to do the translation
job. Needed for Newt's
Cape Chinese.
This package is based on NTEncoding
by GNUE (aka Makoto Nukui).
Download B2Uni Translator.
Cyrillic is a port of a freeware X Window Cyrillic font to Newton platform (Unicode). Please observe the original copyright (see the enclosed BDF font header for detail). Also enclosed are code translation modules for GNUE's (aka Makoto Nukui) NTEncoding. You are able to send/receive file in the software which support NTEncoding (notably Steve Weyer's Newt's Cape.) The supported translations are,
1. MacCyrillic (Russian) <-> Unicode
2. ISO 8859-5 <-> Unicode
3. KOI-R <-> Unicode
4. Win 1251 <-> Unicode
You can also use UniTaipeiX (see below) which comes with full set of Latin-1 (ISO
8859-1), traditional Chinese (Big5), Japanese Kana and Kanji (JIS 208) and Cyrillic
characters (KOI-R). There is also a code translator that can make it easy to share
data between Newton and a desktop.
Download Cyrillic Reading Pack
History: Feb 14 1998 First 0.1Beta released.
Feb 21 1998 Code Translator added.
Feb 24 1998 Public release.
Cyrillic Writing Pack includes a Cyrillic keyboard with which you can type Cyrillic
in your Newton and a TapBar button for transliteration (Latin->Cyrillic). I'm
using Graffiti as my keyboard and found the input of Cyrillic like a breeze.
Download Cyrillic Writing Pack
History: Feb 14 1998 First 0.1Beta released.
Feb 24 1998 Public release.
UniTaipeiX is a port of freeware X Window fonts to Newton platform. Please observe
the original copyright (see the enclosed BDF font headers for detail). This font
include all the Big-5 characters (well, I hope) and all characters in JISX0208.1983
and Cyrillic characters. The fonts are down-sampled to 12 point, so that it can be
kept as small as possible. UniTaipei patches the system font so that (hopefully)
you can also use other languages in the built-in applications.
!! WARNING !!
Before you install this font, please remove the other font that patches the system
font (notably UniTaipeiLite and old UniTaipeiX, or UniCJK?). It won't check if the
other font patch is already installed. IT MIGHT HANG YOUR NEWTON IF OTHER FONT PATCH
IS STALLED. !!! SO BE WARNED !!!
UniTaipeiX replaces the system font. That means if you choose Espy, Causual (HandWriting),
Fancy (New York), or Simple (Geneva), you will get UniTaipei instead. This make it
possible to have Chinese characters displayed in every menu and in the Extras drawer.
The original ROM fonts are renamed to Hand, USA, and Switzerland so that you can
still write your fancy Latin script.
Technically, UniTaipeiX contains 9,10,12 and 18 pt characters for Latin and Cyrillic
characters, but only 12pt for Japanese and Chinese characters. This is because I
ONLY have 8M memory card, and I've got a lot to store on it. I don't want to have
the size of one font four times so big ONLY to see some pretty Chinese character
(and most of them I don't even recognize). Personally I think the built-in scaling
is quite ugly, especially bold facing. Make a 12pt character bold means sometimes
you will got only a crunched fly of a Hanzi/Kanji. So I let the CJ characters all
displayed in 12pt and left the bold the same as normal. This is actually a feature.
(And now you know why UniTaipeiLite is so big but contains much less characters.
;-) And don't forget you can't have everything, especially not for free. )
About how to install a free Chinese Language Kit on your Newton, please refer to
"Free
Chinese Language Kit for MP120/130" provided by J.S.
Lin.
Download UniTaipeiX Font.
History:
V1.01 Fixed a bug that doesn't display some symbols correctly. Feb 11, 1998.
V1.02 Fixed a couple of symbols.
EBTaipei is a port of a freeware X Window font to Newton platform. Please observe
the original copyright (see the enclosed BDF font header for detail).
Download EBTaipei Font
Uni24Lite is a port of a freeware X Window font to Newton platform. Uni24Lite
contains only the frequently used Chinese character (traditional) and all Japanese
JIS208 font in 24x24 format. The Newton point registry is 18pt, however. This font
is mainly for those who are learning Japanese and Chinese and wishing to read Kanji/Hanzi
in more detail.
Uni24LiteFont
Based on the free NTUKai TTF. Full Big5 code range supported, featuring better
looking cyrillic characters. Be WARNED, some Chinese
characters are quite illegible (sorry, this font is automatically sampled to 16x16
bitmap.)
Download NTUKai Font
UniTaipeiLite is a freeware font released by MacBlue.
With this font installed on the Newton, the user can read Chinese text and almost
all the Japanese text on her Newton massagepad. However, the original Roman fonts
are replaced by the Chinese font and can't be used anymore. Still, the input line
which has handwriting font as default displaying font can't display Chinese character.
TaipeiLiteX is a little patch to correct these problems. Please
make sure that UniTeipeiLiteX is installed on the same storage as UniTaipeiLite.
UniTaipeiLiteX should be loaded later than TaipeiLite. Some
users have reported severe system crash, (I can't reproduce it, however), so BE WARNED!
About how to install a free Chinese Language Kit on your Newton, please refer to
"Free
Chinese Language Kit for MP120/130" provided by J.S.
Lin. UniTaipeiLite font can be found in its master
site or www.ifcss.org.
Download UniTaipeiLite Patch.
CLex is a multilingual dictionary engine. Notably it supports Chinese/Japanese
and other script systems. There is a built-in memo so that you can put a new word
in the memo for your later peruse. You can also look up a word online by selecting
the word or simply place the cursor under the word you want to look up. A TapBar
button is also included so that you can have access to CLex almost everywhere at
any time.For the time being, owing to the copyright issue, the author can only offer
the following free dictionary data. If you are holding the copyright of a useful
bi-lingual dictionary and would like to port it to the Newton platform, or if you
are aware of any useful dictionary data in the public domain, please contact the
author. You have to
have at least one dictionary data installed, otherwise you will see an error message.
There is also a version for Macintosh.
Please note that the copyright of the following dictionary
data are held by their copyright holder. The author want to thank Jim Breen for his
generous allowance me to distribute EDICT and JDDICT freely. Please read the included
document.
Take a look at the screen shot.
Program History: Oct 14, 1997 (Version C) -- Pre-release
Feb 24,1998 First release.
Download CLex Engine.
Download a public domain English-Chinese dictionary.(You
should have UniTaipeiLite font or UniTaipeiX font installed
to view Chinese chars, the original data can be found in www.ifcss.org.)
Downlowd EDICT -- a free Japanese-English Dictionary
Download JDDICT -- a free Japanese-German Dictionary
This calendar covers the Chinese lunar calendar data from 1904 to 2049. You choose
the Gregorian calendar date and time from the date and time picker, the corresponding
lunar date and time will be shown. The traditional notation in heaven-gan and earth-zhi
is used. You don't need the Chinese system or font to read this notation
(though you'll have to be able to read Chinese yourself, sorry I can't help that
;-)). Also the Eight-Characters (ba1zhi4) will be shown. Please
note that the correctness of the lunar calendar data is not guaranteed.
There is also a version for Macintosh.
Download Chinese Lunar Calendar.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to me by e-mail <joseph@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>.
