Preparing Simplified Chinese Web Sites

As the University emphasizes on bilingualism, and has more collaboration with mainland institutions, there is a growing demand for both Traditional and Simplified Chinese versions of our web sites. A HanWEB real time translation server has been installed in ITSC. It would be useful if you have a web site in Traditional Chinese, and want to create and maintain a Simplified Chinese version with minimal effort.

As a reminder, if departments are unsatisfied by the HanWEB automatic translation, they could create a simplified Chinese version of web content by themselves.

Architecture

Translation

• Add http://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/gb/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese
• Add http://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/b5/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese
• Add http://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/uniTS/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Traditional Chinese in unicode to Simplified Chinese in unicode
• Add http://translate.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/uniST/ at the beginning of the URL to translate Simplified Chinese in unicode to Traditional Chinese in unicode

Examples

Followings are some notes and translation examples, you may view the source html to compare the differences of the original and translated web pages.

1. Text
2. Hyperlink
3. Image
4. PDF file
5. Special terms
6. Bypass
7. Input form
8. Translation buttons (Please view the html source code to get the java script for your reference.)

Point to be aware

• For heavily loaded system, it is not recommend to use the translation server because the translation server may not be able to handle the load and will become the bottleneck.
• For security reason, the translation server has a non-CUHK IP address (i.e. non 137.189.). If your web page is restricted to the 137.189 network, the translation server will be unable to retrieve your pages, even when the end user is accessing from the 137.189 network. Please consider allowing users to login to your web site when they are accessing outside the 137.189 network.
• Only hosts end with cuhk.edu.hk will be served.

1. Text - directly translated
   
   in Big5/GB2312
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
   in unicode
   

   Traditional Chinese -> Simplified Chinese	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese -> Traditional Chinese	Original page	Translated page
   Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese -> Simplified Chinese	Original page	Translated page Only Traditional Chinese will be translated.
   Both Traditional and Simplified Chinese -> Traditional Chinese	Original page	Translated page Only Simplified Chinese will be translated.

   
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2. Hyperlink - directly translated
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
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3. Image (gif, jpg, png), flash file (swf)
   - You should prepare two sets of images, one for Traditional Chinese (named with _xb5 at the end of each filename), one for Simplified Chinese (named with _xgb at the end of each filename). HanWEB will convert the file name i.e. _xb5 -> _xgb and vice versa.
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page Fail to translate swf file.
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page Fail to translate swf file.

   
   - For the flash file, HanWEB don't realize the "value" of an ojbect is a filename. Therefore, HanWEB fails to translate swf file.
   e.g.
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="180" height="110">
        <param name="movie" valuetype="ref" value="swf_xb5.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
   <embed src="swf_xb5.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="180" height="110"></embed></object>
   
   solution 1: add one more parameter into the object.
   e.g.
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="180" height="110">
        <param name="movie" valuetype="ref" value="swf_xb5.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
   <embed src="swf_xb5.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="180" height="110"></embed></object>
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
   solution 2: type the full path in the "value" paramaeter.
   e.g.
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="180" height="110">
        <param name="movie" value="http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/internal/testkh/swf_xb5.swf">
        <param name="quality" value="high">
   <embed src="swf_xb5.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="180" height="110"></embed></object>
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
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4. PDF file
   You should prepare two sets of PDF files, one for Traditional Chinese (named with _xb5 at the end of each filename), one for Simplified Chinese (named with _xgb at the end of each filename). HanWEB will convert the file name i.e. _xb5 -> _xgb and vice versa.
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
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5. Special terms
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312	Original page	Translated page
   Simplified Chinese in GB2312 -> Traditional Chinese in Big5	Original page	Translated page

   
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6. Bypass
   
   

   Traditional Chinese in Big5 -> Simplified Chinese in GB2312

   Original page

   Translated page

   
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7. Input form
   
   

   Original form	Translated form	User input	Server receive
   B5	GB	GB (same as the viewing version)	B5 (same as the original version)
   GB	B5	B5 (same as the viewing version)	GB (same as the original version)

   
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