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Included in this chapter are terms such as freeware,

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shareware,

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and commercial soware.

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Open source is another term that will pop up from time to time. ese terms relate to the

licensing terms of the soware, and to what extent the source code is made available. is

chapter will provide you with a basic working knowledge of what functions to expect,

but stops short of providing all the information about such soware. To do so is clearly

beyond the scope of this book. If you are interested in a particular OS or application, I

encourage you to obtain more detailed information on it from its creator, manufacturer,

or distributor. In some cases, the manual may be available as a downloadable PDF le, or

there may be a trial version available.

Viewing CJKV Text Using Non-CJKV OSes

For a signicant number of users, simply being able to display CJKV text is sucient to

suit their needs. e ability to input or otherwise manipulate CJKV text may not be so

important to this class of user. If you do not fall into this category of user, I strongly en-

courage you to consider obtaining an OS or other environment that provides a full range

of CJKV support, not simply the ability to display CJKV text. As long as you are using Mac

OS X or Windows Vista as your OS, your needs will be met.

In the past, Microso provided, as part of their OS CD-ROMs and ...