Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) support for Microsoft Traditional Chinese Windows NT 4.0 or Microsoft Windows 2000 README (c)1999 Microsoft Corp. 1. This package is intended to be used only by Hong Kong users to input and output HKSCS. Installing this package may affect private use characters on the target machine. Non HKSCS users are strongly discouraged to install the package. 2. This package can be installed on Traditional/Pan Chinese NT 4.0 or any language edition of Windows 2000. 3. This package contains important system settings necessary to support HKSCS. Other HKSCS packages might conflict with these settings. Please consult with the vendors first regarding the compatibility with this package. 4. On Traditional/Pan Chinese NT 4.0, you must set the system locale to "Chinese (Taiwan)". To set the system locale: a) From "Start | Settings", choose "Control Panel". b) Open "Regional Settings". c) Select locale as "Chinese (Taiwan)". d) Make sure the "Set as system default locale" box is checked. e) Click OK and reboot. 5. On Windows 2000, you must first install "Traditional Chinese". (Control Panel/Regional Options/General/Language settings for the system) If the system locale of Windows 2000 is subsequently changed, the HKSCS package must be reapplied. Otherwise, HKSCS characters will not display correctly. 6. You must have an administrative rights (or rights to write new files into Windows system32 and fonts folders) to install this package. 7. This package is compatible with the Hong Kong GCCS. You should not install any other GCCS packages after this package is installed. 8. On Console Window of Pan Chinese NT 4.0, you must run "chcp 950" in order to use HKSCS. 9. In Pan Chinese Windows NT 4.0, the "Traditional Chinese ChaJei IME 4.0" does not support all HKSCS characters. You must use "ChaJei" or "Quick" IME, included in this package, to input HKSCS characters. To add the two IMEs: a) From "Start | Settings", choose "Control Panel". b) Open "Keyboard", select "Input locale" and click "Add" button. c) Windows 2000: Select "Chinese (Taiwan)" in "Input locale" list box. Select "ChaJei" or Quick IME (note: do not select New ChaJei). Windows NT 4.0: Select "Chinese (Taiwan)" in "Input locale" list box. Click "OK". Select "ChaJei" or "Quick" in the IME list box. e) Click "OK" all the way to close all dialogs. 10. Installations of other applications, such as Microsoft Office, might overwrite some system settings installed by this HKSCS package. It is advisable to reapply this package in order to regain the complete HKSCS support. 11. Certain simplified Chinese fonts support some GBK characters which conflict with HKSCS. Some applications, such as Microsoft Office, might have problems with these characters. It is advisable to remove those fonts such as SimSun. Since MingLiU font does include all Unicode Chinese characters, you are still able to use them. SimSun includes characters defined in GBK in range e830 to e8xx. Excel2k will auto detect these range of characters and switch font to SimSun automatically (fontlinking from Office 2000). 12. For the EUDC (End User Defined Character) editor on Traditional Chinese/Pan Chinese Windows NT 4.0 or Traditional Chinese Windows 2000, you should only use the range of 0x8140-87FE (or Unicode equivalents U+EEBB-F302) to create private use characters, Otherwise you are likely to have conflicts with HKSCS characters. 13. Microsoft Word 2000 opens Unicode text file with HKSCS characters, it is advisable to reapply the text font to MingLiu instead of MingLiu_HKSCS otherwise some of the HKSCS characters will not be displayed correctly. 14. When using "insert from file" command to insert Microsoft Office 2000 OLE object with HKSCS characters, we recommend users to implement the OLE object as picture format. Embedding object of Microsoft Office 2000 cannot support all the HKSCS characters correctly. 15. The "searching" and "find and replace" function for the HKSCS characters could not work on the Office applications.