Taipei, Taiwan Ð Broader foreign-language compatibility has arrived on the NEXTSTEP for Intel platform with the release of CHINAware, a Chinese system that is built on top of the English NEXTSTEP version.
Produced by Jie-Fu Corporation, CHINAware includes several apps that support a variety of everyday text-editing functions using Chinese characters. CInput allows users to input text in several different input modes (including Cang-jie, Phonetics, Simple, TeleCode, and Internal Code) and can interact with other NEXTSTEP apps.
A text editor that works much like Edit, CEdit, is also included, providing support for RTF and RTFD files. Text-searching capabilities are supplied with CSearch, which lets users search for both Chinese and English characters. The package also includes five Chinese PostScript fonts and a complete Longman EnglishÐChinese dictionary.
CHINAware provides Chinese development tools as well, including CTerminal, a Chinese VT100 terminal emulator; ChKit, a Chinese function-call library; and ChIBKit, a Chinese object palette and related library.
Currently, CHINAware only supports the Traditional Chinese Character set (BIG5 code set). Support for the Simplified Character set (GB code set), which is used in mainland China, is currently in the works, according to Jie-Fu.
CHINAware lists for $995, and the educational version costs $395 but has less functionality than the standard version. Jie-Fu can be contacted at 88/62/369-5121, 88/62/369-5120 fax; idpt353 @tpts1.seed.net.tw or tchuang @cube.ep.nctu.edu.tw.