How to set up Good luck characters in Chinese.

In order to save on-line time, the Chinese characters will be downloaded to the user's computer.   Original files are created on PC compatibale and is in *.gif and *.htm format.

The author used PC 80486, 66MHz.   The browser used is Netscape 2.01.   The author's operation system is DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1.   On June 7 1996 the author bought a Jaz drive    It has 1000 meg byte capacity and it is removable.   The author disconnected the old 250 meg byte hard drive and use Jaz drive as start up C: drive.  It works OK.  

A group related files are archived in *.zip form.   User can use PKUNZIP.EXE to get the original files.   After the user received the files, please create a subdirectory, for example C:\GOODLUCK.
PLEASE PUT ALL FILES IN THE SAME SUB-DIRECTORY.
Otherwise the *.htm file can not load the *.gif picture file.   Because all pointer used in the files are LOCAL.  

If you do not have PKUNZIP.EXE, use the on-line search engine to find with the key word "pkunzip" or "pkzip".

The start up file in each group is "FULU####.HTM".   Where FU is good luck in Chinese, LU is prosperity in Chinese.   All start up file are named "FULU####.HTM" no matter if that file contains FU, LU or not.   "####" is a four digit number.

In each group it has a start up web page and related Chinese characters in *.GIF format.   For example the group in FULU0002.ZIP contains FULU0002.HTM and ONE_0001.GIF, TWO_0001.GIF, THREE_01.GIF ... TEN_0001.GIF, HUNDRED1.GIF THSAND_1.GIF, 10THSND1.GIF etc.   The *.GIF file's name is descriptive.   ONE_0001.GIF contains the Chinese character "ONE".   THSAND_1.GIF contains the Chinese character "THOUSAND".

*.GIF file name convention is as following.   Each file name has eight byte space, like "12345678.GIF".   Byte 1 to 7 are used to describe the character as close as possible.   Byte 8 is used to distinguish different characters with same meaning.   For example, HAPPY_01.GIF, HAPPY_02.GIF and HAPPY_03.GIF are three different Chinese characters all with HAPPY meaning.   SPRING_1.GIF, SPRING_2.GIF, SPRING_3.GIF are three different Chinese characters with season_SPRING, mechanical_SPRING, water_SPRING different meanings.   Eighth byte will start from 1, 2 ... to 9 then to A (10), B (11), C (12) ... Z (35).   If there are 10 different characters with HAPPY meaning, then the *.GIF file for the tenth HAPPY is named as HAPPY_0A.GIF.
Sometime the same character wrote more than once.   For example LOVE.   They can not all be named as LOVE_001.GIF.   In this case the seventh byte will be used to distinguish them.   There is LOVE_001.GIF and LOVE_0A1.GIF.
One Chinese character may have several meaning and several pronunciations.    In this case, that single character may have several different file names.    For example, the file happy_04.gif may also named as music_01.gif at later time.  

I hope this 8 byte descriptive naming method will allow me to work properly and give the user an easy way to understand file name.

Please choose from the following

• Good Luck Home Page.
• To see the introduction.
• To down load characters.
• To send suggestions to the author.

Pandar    July 18, 1996.    End of page.