Siemens SIMATIC C7-613 Manual page 67

4.3.3 Creating Asian Texts
Precondition
If you create a project with Asian text, you must have an Asian Windows system or
Windows 2000 multilingual as the operating system. Only under these Windows
systems can you access the required character sets.
The "Input Method Editor" (IME) is available to help you enter Asian characters.
This allows you, for example, to define texts in phonetic script.
Supported languages
The languages Chinese (PRC), Chinese (TW), Korean and Japanese are
supported.
Special characters
Special characters are ASCII characters greater than ASCII 127, e.g. ã, ±, ä, è, ó.
If you use a non-Chinese character set in a text under an Asian Windows system,
you should not use special characters because these may not be displayed
correctly in some cases.
Messages
All the system messages are also available in the Asian languages.
Message numbers, message statuses (coming, going, acknowledged) and
date/time also remain unchanged in alphanumeric characters in Asian projects and
cannot be displayed in Asian characters.
Switching between Asian languages under Windows 2000
If the language support under Windows 2000 is installed, you can switch between
the Asian languages offered in order to display a project.
You can only enter texts in the displayed language if you also change the operating
system to the desired language.
Field length
Field lengths depend on the character width used. In the case of Asian character
sets the double width of the characters can reduce the number of configurable
characters in the fields.
C7-613 Control System
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