28/6/98:
A sample Chinese web page created by first converting(exporting from within WordPerfect into a html file) a WordPerfect Chinese document into a html file, then placing(open Pagemill's Place procedure, then placing and therefore linking) that Wordperfect's Netscape Chinese file into this Pagemill file as a hyperlink:
When the above is clicked, the Chinese file appears. However, do not manipulate or even just open this Chinese file with Pagemill. That's because the latter does not work with Chinese. Hence, once manipulated or opened by it, the Chinese file ceased to provide Chinese when put on the web. It must remain as a linked file in Netscape which supports Chinese language.
When typing in Chinese in the program WordPerfect, ensure in the "language" section "Chinese-Taiwan" is selected. Then, when converting that Wordperfect Chinese document into html, ensure that selection is done once more.
It appears that once a Wordperfect (WP)document has been saved as a html one, it has to be re-opened by WP and re-saved as a html document before this second html version would be readable on the web.*
Also, for file names, can't use Chinese in this case. They simply give a lot of spaces in the file names themselves. Use English or symbols. This is because Pagemill does not recognize Chinese. See "fatal.html" for additional reasons.
*(1/7/98): however, for reason below, that was still unsatisfactory.
Subject: fetch Netscape Chinese to server Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:50:08 -0400 From: K C Cheng Reply-To: postoffice.idirect.com Organization: kccheng.org To: ftp administrator
Dear Sir/Madam: I use Fetch 3.0.2. When viewed with Netscape locally, my Chinese scripts in Netscape platform on my computer are perfect, the characters come out right. But whenever I upload them to the web server, the same changes into characters totally different from the original. I suspect that this is due to Fetch's inability to transport Chinese scripts. If that is the case, are there any newer remedies from Fetch, perhaps in its newer versions? Thanks! Please email me. -- kccheng
So, I converted the Chinese text into a pict file(on Macintosh, press "Command, shift, 3 " at the same time to take a picture of the textfile as a part of the desktop. This picture would be a pict file, which Photoshop can open and modify before being re-exported as a gif file)which was then opened by and re-exported with Photoshop as a gif file. In this way, the result is obvious:
6/7/98:
For Mac users: a potential solution is this: Since ClarisWorks Office 5 contains a Homepage 3 light version, ClarisWorks 5 itslef supports Worldscript, and Homepage 3's full version can upload webpages without additional FTP software, this program with or without ClarisWorks Office 5 should allow the uploading of Chinese texts written in html by either ClarisWorks 5, or 4, or other such programs such as Wordperfect 3.5.
So, I called Filemaker, Inc. maker of Homepage 3, this morning. Its representative by the name of James concurred that Homepage 3 "should be able to do that."
Over the phone,
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