Mandarintools.com Website Review

       These pages hope to provide tools to as*ist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language. From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese. Please check out the DimSum Chinese Reading As*istant Type in Big5, GB, or UTF-8 text and get back an equivalent GIF graphics file Determine the most likely Chinese encoding (GB, HZ, Big5, UTF-8, or other) for a file. Type in the web address of a page in any Chinese encoding (traditional or simplified characters) and have it come up in any Perl5 code to determine the most likely Chinese encoding for a given text string. and Big5 as back into GB or Big5 (or any other eight-bit encoding). (i.e. BoPoMoFo) or moves the pinyin underneath the character. HAVE SUGGESTIONS for a tool you'd like to see here? Found a bug that needs fixing? You can reach me through my contact page browser you are using (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, etc.), and the browser version (2, 3, 4 or 5). For GENERAL CHINESE RESOURCES, painting Chinese in applications, etc. Also a section using Voice of America Chinese broadcasts to study Mandarin. allows you to compose Chinese without installing any input methods. This page has drawn upon quite a few different public-domain Chinese resources and would not have been possible without them.