<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear all,</span><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A few days ago, I came across this Xinhua article on some recently released software tools for Chinese minority languages:</span></div>
<div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-01/06/c_131346879.htm" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-01/06/c_131346879.htm</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">These programs include electronic dictionaries for the characters of the Yi and Zhuang ethnic groups, a proofreading tool for the Zhuang ethnic language, and transcoding applications for the languages of the Tibetan, Uygur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz ethnicities, according to a statement released Friday by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.</span></blockquote>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I went to the web page of the CASS, but I was unable to find these software anywhere. I did find these press releases: </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.gov.cn/jrzg/2012-01/06/content_2038480.htm" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">http://www.gov.cn/jrzg/2012-01/06/content_2038480.htm</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://iel.cass.cn/news_show.asp?newsid=10022&detail=1" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">http://iel.cass.cn/news_show.asp?newsid=10022&detail=1</font></a></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">but unfortunately they do not seem to contain any links to a download page. </span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Would anyone on this list happen to know where I could download these tools? </span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks in advance!</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Best wishes,</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Daan van Esch</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">graduate student in Chinese linguistics</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Leiden University</span></div>