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Max & Alex (maxalex@gol.com) wrote:
: Could someone help me? I have to convert some GB endoded files into Big5.
: Is there an application which can handle such conversion on a Mac?
: Is it safe?

ftp://ftp.cnd.org/pub/software/mac/convert/CConvert.sea.bin


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In article <maxalex-2311960054570001@tokyo-06-206.gol.com>,
maxalex@gol.com (Max & Alex) wrote:

> Hello,
> I am an Italian who has to work with Chinese characters, no punishment
> could be worse!
> Could someone help me? I have to convert some GB endoded files into Big5.
> Is there an application which can handle such conversion on a Mac?
> Is it safe?
> Thanks,
> Max




Well, things ain't easy.  But never hesitate to ask a college. On my CD
"FONT ASIA" which I own since September 1995 is exactly what you need. But
"Is it safe?", well it's like safer sex, you never know when the rubber
will burst. Or as Chih-Hao Tsai writes in his Read Me "It is user's
responsibility to choose the right choices of the traditional Chinese for
sake of accuracy." As for an Italian who has seen the Great Wall it
shouldn't be so difficult. But there is nobody out there who can help you
when it comes to make a choice between the right and wrong Kanji within
milliseconds. In your next life you should insist to be born in Hongkong.
They will have the fun in the future to learn both, the Simplified and
Traditional. Good Luck!

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Have a nice day!

Joe Kellner (juergen@gol.com) wrote:
: "Is it safe?", well it's like safer sex, you never know when the rubber
: will burst. Or as Chih-Hao Tsai writes in his Read Me "It is user's
: responsibility to choose the right choices of the traditional Chinese for
: sake of accuracy." As for an Italian who has seen the Great Wall it

No. I am not the author of the BIG5<->GB conversion program. I also won't
say that. I do think a more intelligent program, rather than a
table-lookup one, can resolve the GB->BIG5 mapping ambiguities quite
effectively. 

: shouldn't be so difficult. But there is nobody out there who can help you
: when it comes to make a choice between the right and wrong Kanji within
: milliseconds. In your next life you should insist to be born in Hongkong.

In order to do this automatically, your program need to identify words
from the input GB text. Remember that there are no word boundaries in
Chinese text. After identifying the words, you may then use a GB-BIG5
lexicon (not character code table) to convert the GB text into BIG5 code
at the level of words. At the word level, most ambiguities can be
resolved. 


Hao
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Chih-Hao Tsai @ Beckman Institute, University of Illinois
c-tsai4@uiuc.edu  http://casper.beckman.uiuc.edu/~c-tsai4