README for UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release This product is a Chinese Windows platform supporting Internet, programmed and supported by Hope Corp. It can be regarded as a powerful tool in accessing information via Internet. It can be installed in any type of Win95(tm) system, and have both 16bit and 32bit cores. Features: A. Fully support multi-encoding The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release can support several document encodings which are popular in mainland China, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macau, Japan or Korea. And further more, it can auto-detect these encodings and display the document with different encoding in the same screen. The encodings supported bye the current version of UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release are: GB, GBK, BIG5, JIS, Shift JIS, HZ, ISO 2022/GB/BIG5/JIS, New JIS and Old JIS, and the newer version will support more. The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release also achieves "intelligent translating" between GB and BIG5. Since GB and BIG5 are not one to one related encoding system, normal translating softwares cannot get a perfect result, while UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release can achieve a 99% perfect rate. It makes the information exchange between GB and BIG5 readers more easy. The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release is also including a translating kit which can re-encode documents to any of the supported encodings. B. Fully support 32bit 2byte core The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release includes both 16bit and 32bit 2byte cores, so it can support all 16bit and 32bit Chinese and English softwares under different Win95(tm) versions. For example, one can run Word 8 English, simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese version with UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release under either PWIN95 or originally English version of Win95. C. Flexible inputing method system The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release provides "ZHINENG QUANPIN", "SHUANGPIN" and "ZHUYIN" input methods based on the big character set, along with "Contonese PINYIN", "CANGJIE", "WBZX", "QUWEI" and internal code input methods. Further more, all input methods can be used with all supported encoding methods. The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet also inherits all the input method dictionaries of UCDOS, and supports legend(LIANXIANG) and self-designed phrases as well. D. First-aid kit for e-mail The First-aid kit for e-mail of UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release is a Chinese supporting mail browser for any 2byte platform, which can read mail with Chinese characters directly. E. Smart system line The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release supports both dynamic and static system lines, which makes the input of Chinese easier and faster. F. English-Chinese dictionary The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release also provides an English-Chinese dictionary, which contains more than 100,000 English and Chinese words. The dictionary can run both in Windows and DOS. In the Windows environment, several methods of getting the word to look up are usable, especially. the "right button catch" method, which is very useful in Internet environment. G. Font interface The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release's font manager modular is independent to the encoding and font structure, so it not only can use all the UCDOS fonts, but also can use font-lib of other Chinese system. Further more, if the Windows is already a 2byte one, the windows font-lib is also usable by UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release. H. Compatibility and steadiness The UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release was carefully programmed and thoroughly tested, and can support all kinds of Chinese and English softwares in principle. G. Accessories 1. The system configuration program, which allows the user to re-configurate their UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release system. 2. Big character printing kit, for printing characters as big as several square meters. *************************************************************** System requires: Any kind of win95(tm) subversion. (including PWIN95, original WIN95, win97....etc) Packing list: UCWSYS.EXE: winzip self-extractor of UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release UCWDICT.EXE: winzip self-extractor of UCWIN dictionary UREADME.TXT: this file ***************************************************************** Note: This share version of UCWIN Gold 1.0 for Internet Beta Release is free to copy and distribute, as long as the copyright lines are not changed. Any comments and feedbacks are welcome, please connect to the Hope Corp. Or send mail to customer@mail.hope.co.cn Homepage of hope: http://www.hope.co.cn (c) Hope Corp. 1997. All rights reserved