PanelView plus from English to Chinese

[finfin 0]

We are being asked to translate a PanelView Program form English to "traditional"(?) Chinese. As near as I can tell it has to be translated into a Chinese character that already exists in a font file. Is this correct? Does anyone out there know who could provide translations? My boss thought I should make a list of words to translate but I'm thinking it should be a list of complete phrases instead, since word for word translations usually don't make a lot of sense. Any thoughts along these lines would be helpful. Edited 26 Nov 2007 by finfin

[BobLfoot 302]

I've found these sites helpful in English to Spanish, Spanish to English and German to English. They claim to do chinese. Can't say how good. http://www.freetranslation.com/ http://babelfish.altavista.com/

[mracer 2]

http://freetranslation.imtranslator.net/?dir=en/zh&text= This is one that have used, Although not for Chinese. Hope this helps.

[buster 0]

I belive this is bulit into HMI's that are programmed with RSView. Version 4.0 or higher. Havent tried it though. Something to do with when you create your .MER file.

[larry818 0]

Traditional chinese is what they use in Taiwan, the old style pretty characters. Simplified chinese was dreamt up by the pig farmers in the communist party. I use traditional even when shipping to the mainland.... Buahahaha... Anyway, you'll probably need a machine with taiwan winders on it to properly get the right characters. I've tried the add on stuff and for some reason, it never works well. We have a 'puter here with trad chinese winders for this. None of the translators will get you where you want. Find a taiwanese controls guy to do it for you. If you can't find someone locally, I can probably scare someone up either here in California or Taiwan. L

[Nathan 7]

Wow...so the version doesn't matter?

[larry818 0]

Probably not. Everything is unicode these days, so if the OS can edit it, the software should be smart enough to pass on both bytes. I'd be really surprised if it doesn't just work.