[sci.lang] Hypercard Chinese dictionary

lai@Apple.COM (Ed Lai) (06/29/88)

This is to announce the availability of a freeware HyperCard stack Chinese
dictionary. Actually there are two stacks, a stack that uses the simplified
character set and contains 6768 characters, and a stack that uses the
traditional character set and contains 5401 characters. They MUST run under
the corresponding version of Chinese Macintosh system. The sizes of the stacks
are 500K and 700K. The information on each character is the pronunciation
and the radical (and the stroke count for the traditional version). The meaning
of each character is not included in this version. Digitized sound are included
for a few pronunciation only. The dictionaries are indexed by pronunciation and
radicals.

The two stacks actually shares the same digitized sound resources. In effect I
am proposing a resource naming convention for digitized sound for Chinese
pronunciation that can be used in any HyperCard stack. I shall talk about this
at a later date.

Since the stacks MUST run under Chinese Macintosh operating system, I expect
another round of mail asking me where to get that. There is really no easy
answer. It should have been available on APDA, but never made it and does not
look like it will be available in the near future. I think there is a dealer
in the US but I do not have the address. I shall post it when I got the
information. In the mean time, this message is only addressed to the very few
people out there who already has the Chinese Macintosh operating system.
Also the fact that the stack requires both HyperCard and Chinese Macintosh
operating system means that it is only practical to run it on a 2M system with
a hard disc. Furthermore unless you have version 1.1 of the Chinese Macintosh
operating system, it cannot be run on a MACII.

Since so few people out there can use the stack, I shall not try to post the
stack until the Chinese Macintosh operating system is more generally available.
Also with the kind of skill I have on mail, I hate to send it on mail. So
anyone requesting the stack should send a formatted 800K disk with a self-
addressed stamped envelope to
Edmund Lai
946 San Tomas Aquino Road
Campbell, CA 95008.
Please specified whether you want the simplified or traditional version. If you
want both version, both will be put on the same disk compressed, but you won't
be able to use it unless you have both operating system.

This is version 0.1 and the first release of the stacks. So those who do not
have the Chinese operating system should wait and request the stacks later,
there will be later and better version of the stacks then.

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