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| 8/15/2002 |
hkinteractive.com helped Leslie Cheung Internet Fan Club to implement Chinese characters conversions in real time |
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For Immediate Release
China is entering WTO and there will be many business opportunities between Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. However different versions of Chinese characters is still a serious problem and barrier for many of the Web sites in the region as most of the people use simplified Chinese (GB) in Mainland China and Singapore, and traditional Chinese (Big5) in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It becomes necessary to have both versions to gain business awareness without the hassle of maintenance.
With the help of hkinteractive.com, the technical consulting arm of Chi Tao Studio, we were able to deliver this complex and process intensive application and it has been seamlessly integrated with our backend content management system. Thanks to hkinteractive.com's tremendous efficiency as it only took the team less than a week to implement this application over our 50,000 static and dynamic generated pages.
Selection of Chinese characters is simply by switching  and  between shown in the web pages.
Most importantly, the Chinese character conversion application will remember your choice based on the Chinese (Big5 or GB) you selected across the site.
Main purpose and benefits:
- Easy LCIFC editorial maintenance effort of our global Web sites as we only need to keep one Chinese character version (Big5).
- The application will convert between traditional and simplified Chinese with artificial intelligence that solves one-to-many character-mapping problems in real time.
- Persistent selection based on user's preference.
- ASP component based technology with lightening fast conversion speed at 5000 characters/sec.
- 99% of accuracy.
- Supports SSL encoded Web pages.
Technical background information about Chinese Big5 and GB characters:
Computers don't speak any languages, they only know numbers. In order for computers to work with human languages such as Chinese and English, special mappings between numbers and letters or characters are made into standards that various computers and programs understand. These agreed upon ways of using Chinese are called characters sets or code sets. GB (short for "Guojia Biaozhun" or "National Standard") is the standard used in the People's Republic of China and Singapore and it has a set of about 7,000 simplified Chinese characters. Big5 is used in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has about 13,000 traditional Chinese characters. Unicode is an emerging standard that attempts to encode all the major languages, including Chinese. Unicode includes all the characters from GB and Big5 and more. A character set is different from a font that supports that character set. You may have a document written using GB, but to view it you need a font that includes all the GB characters. Viewing a GB encoded document as if it were in Big5 will produce garbage on the screen. Viewing a Chinese document on a program that thinks it is in English will also produce an unintelligible document with lots of accented letters and symbols.
The characters in Unicode are a superset of the characters in GB and Big5 so it is easy to convert directly from GB or Big5 into Unicode. However, while there is some overlap between GB and Big5, there are also many simplified characters in GB that are not in Big5, and many traditional characters in Big5 that are not in GB. Consequently, conversion between GB and Big5 is not trivial, since many simplified characters map to multiple Big5 traditional equivalents. Going from Big5 to GB is easier, since the conversion from traditional to simplified is much less ambiguous.
About lesliecheung.com
Since 1994, lesliecheung.com has been the leading entertainment portal in the region with members around the world. lesliecheung.com aims to create an one-stop portal for fans around the world to extend their support onto the web and provide latest information about the Hong Kong's most successful artist Leslie Cheung.
Visit www.lesliecheung.com
Public Relationship
Email: info@lesliecheung.com
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