How to read and write using Chinese characters on your computer

http://www.alliancefrancaise.org.cn/encodage.htm
A rather outdated page (1998) but it has the advantage to be in French and to give simple information about computer Chinese encoding.

http://www.sinoptic.ch/internet/
If you need to read or write using Chinese characters on computer, this page provides useful information and especially the links to pages where it is possible to download Chinese fonts, viewers, or software, whatever your computer platform is.

To install free software for writing in Chinese

http://www.lechinois.com/logiciel/globalime.html
Global IME (Input Method Editor), a Microsoft © product. It is user-friendly and allows you to create documents or write e-mails.