December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Code Conversion
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Network Chinese Filter (NCF), a Chinese code conversion tool that is written in C and in-
cludes APIs, represented the core technology of several projects that took place in China
(this was considered a “National Ninth Five-Year Plan Key Project”), such as:
WinNCF
A Windows version of NCF.
NCFTTY
A pseudo terminal emulator that uses NCF to handle dierent encodings.
NCF Proxy
A proxy for use with web browsers for automatically handling Chinese code
conversion.
NCFDT
A tool for detecting Chinese encodings that is written in C and includes APIs.
CERNET’s Network Compass (a Chinese search engine), developed by Tsinghua Univer-
sity, made use of NCF and NCFDT.
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e URL for NCF and related technologies can be
found in Table 4-85.
See Chapter 9, specically the section entitled “Chinese-Chinese Conversion,” for details
about converting between Simplied and Traditional Chinese, which is not so simple.
Japanese Code Conversion
Japanese code conversion is not problematic if you are dealing with only the JIS X
0208:1997 character set. e JIS X 0212-1990 character set, for example, cannot be encod-
ed using Shi-JIS. Interestingly, the newer JIS X 0213:2004 character set can be encoded
using Shi-JIS, but it is not. In addition, there is no single method for encoding half-width
katakana in an ISO-2022–based encoding, which causes some confusion (to the point,
in ...
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