How to recover TwinBridge 4.5 Characters ?

[buzhongren]

datamin: 2. I tried to debug the macros to make it happen but my lack of knowledge in encoding is too important. So, I found how to get traditional Characters instead of Block; but impossible for me to get the simplified character. (I think that it was so close...)

BIG5 is Traditional encoding. GB2312 is Simplified. I think TwinBridge used their Font Chn FMing S5 to show you Simplified characters where normally you would see Traditional. I think your conversion worked. Traditional characters is all you can expect. There cant be that many you change to Simplified from Traditional after the conversion. You could check with a VB support group to see if the problem is with the encoding conversion parameters.

xiele,

Jim

[jbradfor]

So, I found how to get traditional Characters instead of Block; but impossible for me to get the simplified character.

I think you have a misunderstanding. Changing between traditional and simplified is not just a matter of changing fonts; typically, a different encoding is used. There are many programs that attempt to do this for you.

[dadamin]

@ buzhongren,

I think too that Traditionnal Characters is the best I can expect with my knowledge of the VBA Macros. Maybe, I should ask a VB support...

I dont know if you have this font packaged installed on W95 but all you have to do is change font from BIG5 CHNFMING to UNICODE TSCFMING. Notice that is all he is doing with the macros: converting Twinbridge BIG5 CHN to Twinbridge UNICODE TSC. To make the characters visible he uses the default W7 Unicode font SimSun.

I will definitively try this option !! thanks !

@ jbradfor,

yes indeed, but I would like to find an easy way to convert the files and work on it with MS Word only. Do you have any suggestion ?

@Kobo-Daishi,

All the files are just using Simplified Characters.

When I was writing my post yesterday, I found that NJStar on Windows 7 works not so bad. It's a very helpful alternative but there are some minor problems :

- the quality of the font

- many bugs about non-recognizing characters

So, just copy the file to the clipboard, use their converter (NJSTAR Word Processor), and then paste to a new MSWORD file, it works (more or less). I fix the bugs and any font after

I will try to the other options mentionned before, directly on my old windows 95 in order to know if a better solution exists.

Edited February 24, 2010 at 07:20 AM by dadamin
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