Traditional Chinese Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

For Traditional Chinese, Windows Embedded Compact contains locale-specific support for fonts, Traditional Chinese languages, an Input Method Editor (IMEs), and input methods (IMs).

For more information, see Traditional Chinese.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Create Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

• Requires an input method editor (IME). For more information, see Traditional Chinese Pocket IME Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables.

Catalog Items and SYSGEN Variables

The following table shows the catalog items and associated SYSGEN variables you can set to add functionality for Traditional Chinese to your OS.

Catalog item	SYSGEN variable	Description	Dependencies
East Asian Edit Control	SYSGEN_EDIMEFE	Edit control that supports input of East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.	Requires a touch screen.
East Asian Word Wrap	SYSGEN_MGFE	Support for word wrap for East Asian languages, so that long sentences break correctly to appear in multiple lines of text.	None.
Monotype Imaging AC3 Font Compression.	SYSGEN_AC3_FONT	Provides Monotype Imaging AC3 Font Compression that compresses fonts to help reduce memory requirements. Prior to Windows Embedded Compact 2013, this technology was referred to as Agfa AC3 Font Compression. Note: AC3 font compression is not supported in XAML for Windows Embedded applications. For XAML for Windows Embedded applications, either disable AC3 font compression in the OS Design, or embed and use non-compressed font files (.ttf or .ttc) in the application. For information about embedding fonts, see Embed Fonts in a XAML for Windows Embedded Application.	Requires a Korean font.
Microsoft JhengHei	SYSGEN_FONTS_MSJH	Provides JhengHei font for Traditional Chinese character style.	Requires Traditional Chinese language support.
Microsoft JhengHei Bold	SYSGEN_FONTS_MSJHBD	Provides bold JhengHei font for Traditional Chinese character style.	Requires Traditional Chinese language support.
MingLiU & PMingLiU & MingLiU_HKSCS	SYSGEN_FONTS_MINGLIU	Provides MingLiU and proportional MingLiU (PMingLiU) Traditional Chinese fonts.	Requires Traditional Chinese language support.
MingLiU-ExtB & PMingLiU-ExtB & MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB	SYSGEN_FONTS_MINGLIUB	Provides Traditional Chinese fonts: MingLiU font that supports Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) Unified Extension B characters. A proportional MingLiU (PMingLiU) font. MingLiU font that supports Hong Kong SAR Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) and CJK Unified Extension B characters.	Requires Traditional Chinese language support.
Chinese (Traditional)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_HANT	Provides Chinese (Traditional) language support. LCID Locale 0x7C04 zh-Hant	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). For more information, see Uniscribe Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables. Also requires a code page.
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_HK	Provides Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) language support. LCID Locale 0x0C04 zh-HK	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). For more information, see Uniscribe Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables. Also requires a code page.
Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, radical/stroke sort)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_HK_RADSTR	Provides Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, radical/stroke sort) language support. LCID Locale 0x00040C04 zh-HK-radstr	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). Also requires a code page.
Chinese (Taiwan)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_TW	Provides Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) language support. LCID Locale 0x0404 zh-TW	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). Also requires a code page.
Chinese (Taiwan, Bopomofo sort)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_TW_PRONUN	Provides Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, Bopomofo sort) language support. LCID Locale 0x00030404 zh-TW-pronun	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). For more information, see Uniscribe Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables. Also requires a code page.
Chinese (Taiwan, radical/stroke sort)	SYSGEN_NLS_ZH_TW_RADSTR	Provides Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, radical/stroke sort) language support. LCID Locale 0x00040404 zh-TW-radstr	Requires Unicode Script Processor for Complex Scripts (SYSGEN_UNISCRIBE). For more information, see Uniscribe Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables. Also requires a code page.
CJK Sort	SYSGEN_NLS_SORTING_CJK	Provides Unicode code-point value sort for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic characters	None.

See Also

Reference

Traditional Chinese Registry Settings

Other Resources

Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese Pocket IME