[AceOfHeart]

I actually managed to force bbo to support chinese chat, using the regional and advanced option and letting windows run non-unicode forcing it to run chinese(taiwan). However if i do it this way i cant read the simplified chinese messages and when i force windows to chinese(prc) i cant read the traditional messages.

Is there a workaround for this?

[andych]

I am running chinese (taiwan) windows, and have not much problems in typing chinese (taiwan) in chat wndiows. Though sometimes certain characters wouldnt show but not that often.
I understand there is an unoffical copy of chinese (taiwan) BBO 4.7.0. Would be great if BBO could make it offical.

[AceOfHeart]

I have no problems typing taiwan chinese, the main problem lies in no being able to actually read simplfied(prc) chinese when i change my bbo to traditional( taiwan) and vice versa.

I am running win xp english version and i change my mode via
control panel-->regional and language settings---> advanced
and change the settings under language for non-unicode programs.

As it requires a restart of my comp everytime i change the lang sttings it is very troublesome and impractical to keep restart my comp when i want to chat in one lang or the other.

I was wondering if there is a workaround.

[Rain]

Are you saying you want to read both simplified chinese and trad. chinese easily?
BBO currently only supports simplified chinese I think, so this doesn't seem possible. ie, if you let your windows runs trad. chinese you're going to see weird stuff.

Is there really a traditional chinese taiwanese version 4.7.0 like andych says?

iirc, there are 2 things you need to do.

1) language/regional settings, make sure you have Chinese PRC there.
This makes sure you can read the chinese fonts/characters in BBO. Also, even if your computer is set to "English" input language, and BBO is set to English, you'd still be able to see real chinese characters, instead of senseless random stuff.

2) To input chinese, you could just use the windows pinyin cme input method. But frankly it sucks. What is it? Some type of text predictor? I want to be able to choose my characters. So if I recall, step 3 is necessary.

3) Need to have MS office and install Chinese input there. Then you can input and choose your characters like a normal word processor.

[andych]

AceOfHeart, on Apr 16 2006, 07:15 PM, said:

I have no problems typing taiwan chinese, the main problem lies in no being able to actually read simplfied(prc) chinese when i change my bbo to traditional( taiwan) and vice versa.

I am running win xp english version and i change my mode via
control panel-->regional and language settings---> advanced
and change the settings under language for non-unicode programs.

As it requires a restart of my comp everytime i change the lang sttings it is very troublesome and impractical to keep restart my comp when i want to chat in one lang or the other.

I was wondering if there is a workaround.

OIC .... it is a problem for me too. I couldnt read Chinese (PRC) and Chinese (Taiwan) both at the same time.

I am running Windows traditional Chinese (Taiwan). My control panel-->regional and language settings---> advanced --> traditional Chinese for non unicode programs.

With the current setting above
1. Could not see the Chinese PRC tags e.g. in options page
2. Could see/type Chinese traditional in chat windows.
3. Could not see/type Chinese PRC in chat windows.

If I change non unicode programs lang to Chinese PRC, I could then see the Chinese BBO tag e.g. in options page. Not remember clearly what happens to chat windows.