Chinese Characters

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Sat, 31 May 2008, Frank7767 at aol.com wrote:

> System SCO UNIX 5.6
> Filepro
>  
> application --food wholesaler (supplies Chinese Rest. and Groceries)
>  
> Problem.. This guy's customers and employees speak little English and read  
> less. His current hand invoices come with pre-printed product descriptions in  
> English and Chinese They fill out the qty & price. 
> He is restricted to about 30 generic produce Descriptions e.g. Lemons  (  )  
> Limes ( ), Etc. 
> He wants to know if there is a way to store the Chinese Words for the  
> Products (Mostly Fruits and Veggies)
> and print them at the time of either Pick Sheets and/or Invoices. 
>  
> If we look at the produce mix over time, he sells about 200  different things 
> with seasonal variations.
>  
> I may have to look in Hong Kong for something, I hope not
>  
> If this sounds familiar. I did post a similar question several months ago  
> but this guy "went away" for a while, but now he is "BBBAAACCCKKK"

FilePro doesn't care what character encoding your data is in, from what 
I've been told, so what you need to ensure is that you are consistent, for 
data input, display, and printing.

AnzioWin can do all this for you. You configure Anzio (in 
Communicate:Character sets) for what character set (encoding scheme) to 
use when talking to the server. Everything Anzio does locally, on the PC, 
is character-set independent (basically, in Unicode). On the input side, 
you set the Windows keyboard definition. On the display side, Anzio will 
automatically find a Windows-installed font to use for non-Roman 
characters. For printing, you must use Print Wizard, which is built into 
AnzioWin but not Anzio Lite. Print Wizard will likewise do automatic font 
selection.

Your options for the character set include:

Codepage 950 (CP-950), Traditional Chinese, as used in Taiwan, etc.

Codepage 936, Simplified Chinese, use in mainland China (PRC), having 
fewer characters. Your customer may have a preference between Traditional 
and Simplified, based on where THEIR customers are from.

UTF-8 (Unicode). This will allow storage of characters from all over the 
world.

Also, copy and paste work, so the customer can paste in the words they 
want, instead of figuring out how to type them.

Experiment with AnzioWin, call me when you have problems.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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