[Zh-l10n] Chinese team; translation project

Paul Hammer 105 West River Street Paris, Ontario N3L 2V4 e-mail; <paulhammer105(a)home.com> I sent an e-mail to the TP project and Martin referred me to your Chinese team. Since my trip to Shenzhen China I have been trying to find an inexpensive or free translation program for my computer that changes English to Mandarin Chinese and Mandarin Chinese to English so that I can send and receive e-mail from my Chinese friends. Could you please direct me to such a site or a location where I can purchase an inexpensive or free program? A hard copy would be preferred but a downloaded version would be ok too. Could you please tell me the main difference between simplified, mandarin and traditional. I keep seeing this comparison and wondered what connection to Mandarin they share. My PC computer is a Intel Pentium 3, 733 kHz with dual 25 GB hard drives, 256 k secondary memory and I am currently operating on 16 bit but can change to 32 bit.( I think) My operating system is windows 98 with office 2000 premium edition. My friends operating system is Microsoft's ME. I would appreciate any suggestions. Sincerely yours, Paul Hammer email: <paulhammer105(a)home.com> Hi Paul, I'm sorry to say that we cannot help; we are not experts in the Chinese language. You may consider contacting the Chinese team in the translation project, at <zh-l10n(a)linux.org.tw>tw>. Regards, Martin