9, the official China successfully developed the first set of computer office software in Tibetan - "The Tibetan edition of the successful tenderer 3.0 Price Waterhouse office." The successful development of Tibetan office software will speed up Tibet and other Tibetan areas of information process.
"The Tibetan edition of the successful tenderer PwC office 3.0" Shanghai won the bid by the software companies and joint development from the University of Tibet, and it filled the Tibetan areas of computer office software, a blank.
The software features for the Tibetan language, Tibetan overcome coding, Tibetan fonts, input method, photo-text, multilingual interface and multi-language information storage and many other technical problems.
The developer of that, the software is particularly suitable for the Tibetan language computer processing.
Prior to that, living in Tibet and other Tibetan areas can only be installed on Microsoft's office software plug-ins of other Tibetan layout for input Tibetan.
However, the resulting a disadvantage that the software itself, such as in the Tibetan language typesetting there is a big limitation, but due to some editing and typesetting software itself does not support or do not fully support China's Tibetan coding standard, interchangeable between documents is poor, very inconvenient to use.
A vice chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, said heat Lobsang Tenzin, a large number of Tibetan information can not be displayed on the computer, it can not be transmitted over the Internet, a serious impediment to the Tibetan areas of information construction and development.
Shanghai Vice Mayor Yang Xiong said he believes that the advent of Tibetan-language office software and applications can effectively enhance the level of information in Tibet, and to "promote the information age the prosperity of Tibetan culture."
China's Ministry of Information Industry, said Chen Ying, deputy director of management, the Chinese government will vigorously promote Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other ethnic minorities gather area information, and strive to fill the existing minority districts, "Digital gap. "
He said the Ministry of Information Industry launched in 2004, the vast scale of the "Tibetan-language software development projects", currently being developed by 13 Chinese companies to conduct independent research and development, respectively.
They include the "Tibetan Star For Windows 2000/XP" "Linux-based operating system research and development of Tibetan" "a new generation of Tibetan language electronic publishing system", "Tibetan books, documents electronic publishing system" and so on.
Chen Ying said that many of the R & D project is nearing completion.
The first batch of 32,000 units, worth 15 million yuan of the Tibetan office software, will be presented to the Shanghai Municipal People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region, for the Tibet Autonomous Region government agencies, public institutions and large schools free of charge.
In addition, some software development companies in the future will also set up technical support centers in Tibet, training, skilled use of computer software to help the Tibetan people.
According to Chen Ying said in support of Korean, Mongolian, Uighur and other minority languages in China independently developed the use of other office software system has been put into research and development.