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CHIN 410/510 Chinese Information Processing Unit 2 Review Exercises: Questions for discussion 1. For what purposes are character standard sets established? 2. What is the non-coded character set for? What is the coded character set for? 3. Which two standard character sets are there in China? How many characters are there? 4. Which standard character sets are there in Taiwan? How many characters are there? 5. What are ascii codes? 6. How many characters are there for ascii codes? 7. What are extended ascii codes? 8. What doe GB stand for? 9. How many characters does GB table contain? 10. What does Big5 or B5 stand for? Why is this table called Big5? Is it a national standard for Taiwan? 11. How many characters does Big5 table contain? 12. What is Unicode? What characters does it contain? 13. How is an English letter represented in computer? 14. What is a bit? What is a byte? How many bits are used for encoding English letters? 15. How many bits are used to encode Chinese characters? Seven bits? Eight bits? One byte or two bytes? Review Exercises: Displaying Chinese documents in simplified and traditional characters. Saving Chinese documents in various formats doc, rtf, etc. Use Word to type a Chinese paragraph either in simplified or traditional characters. 2. Use mouse to highlight the text. Click Tools, Language, Chinese Translation. Select either Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese. 3. Save the same document in 4 formats. Click File, Save. Select a file type. doc text and formatting will be saved for future use in Word rtf text and formatting will be saved for future use in other word processors such as WordPerfect, Mac Word txt text only, typesetting format such as font, size will be lost, After you have saved these four files. Open them to see the difference of these documents. Double click the rtf file and see if you can open it in Word. Converting between simplified and traditional characters If