Chinese access to the World Wide Web

How to write PSU Mathematics Department in Chinese

If you aren't seeing Chinese characters, the reason may be that the software you are using is unable to display them. In particular, NCSA Mosaic is not Chinese-aware.

Chinese software for the World Wide Web

Despite the fact that NCSA Mosaic is not Chinese-aware, there are several options for full Chinese access to Gopher and the World Wide Web. Ask Steve Simpson for details. If you only want to read Chinese, run Netscape 2.0 or better, and select one of the Chinese language encodings in the Options menu. If you also need to write Chinese (for instance to fill out a form), you can run Emacs W3 (or Emacs Gopher) inside cemacs inside cxterm, in either Big5 or GB mode. Or, you can run lynx inside cxterm, in either Big5 or GB mode. And there are other options as well.

Chinese information servers

With appropriate Chinese software, you can access Chinese information on the Internet. There are numerous Big5 servers in Taiwan. In particular 虫 蝴 裹 (Wei-Chang Shann, formerly of the Penn State Mathematics Department) maintains a Big5 Chinese literature archive. Also of interest are an on-line English -> Chinese dictionary and a Taiwan WWW Master List. In North America, the CND and IFCSS maintain Chinese WWW pages (mostly GB), and Carlos McEvilly maintains a WWW page for Chinese-Language-Related Information. Recently Ming Pei opened a Chinese literature site in the United States. The IHEP in Beijing maintains a China Home Page. A new Big5 site for Chinese Software is Chinese Software Collection.

Copyright (C) 1995-6, Stephen G Simpson 

Stephen G. Simpson  /  simpson@math.psu.edu  /  22 November 1996