This article gives readers an insight on how the British colonial rule affected the technical standards in Hong Kong. However, not all technical standards in Hong Kong are identical with their counterparts in the United Kingdom due to practical or some other reasons. Chinese people in Hong Kong have adopted many western folkways, but a substantial number of them still adhere to traditional Chinese traditions on various aspects of social living; for instance family solidarity, “courtesy and face” in interpersonal relationship. ... Other Hong Kong topics Culture - Economy Education - Geography - History Hong Kong Portal Politics of Hong Kong takes place in a framework of a political system dominated by China, an own legislature, the Chief Executive as the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... Flag of colonial Hong Kong, a Blue Ensign with the colonys coat of arms. ...

Electrical plugs and adaptors

Before the legislation of the Electrical Products Regulation a few years before the handover in 1997, British standard extension cables, plugs and adaptors were seldom found in the market. Electrical appliances were fitted with 2-pin plugs and quasi-UK three pin plugs (which meant they were compatible with BS 1363 or BS 546 sockets, but the plug itself did not comply with the British Standard). This page covers electrical adaptors which are common in the UK and presumablly other places where British wiring is in use such as Hong Kong. ... // In most countries, household power is single-phase electric power, in which a single live conductor brings alternating current into a house, and a neutral returns it to the power supply. ... BS1363 type electrical socket. ... This article exists to give readers an insight into some problems regarding electrcial plugs and sockets in Hong Kong. ... An extension cord (also known as a power extender or an extension lead) is a length of flexible electrical cable (flex) with a plug on one end and one or more sockets on the other end (usually of the same type as the plug). ... A plug is: a device which is designed to stop a fluid from flowing through a hole. ... This mains power plug travel adaptor allows European or British plugs to be inserted into American or Australian sockets An adapter or adaptor is a device used to match the physical or electrical characteristics of two different things so that a connection may be made between them. ... BS1363 type electrical socket. ... rtyertyerytertyerytery This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... British Standards is the new name of the British Standards Institute and is part of BSI Group which also includes a testing organisation. ...

After the enforcement of the regulation, many British standard electrical products are common in Hong Kong market. Some adaptors common in the United Kingdom are not available in Hong Kong. Conversely, local manufacturers develop adaptors for the Hong Kong market and they are not often sold in the UK. This page covers electrical adaptors which are common in the UK and presumablly other places where British wiring is in use such as Hong Kong. ...

One aspect worth noting is some local manufacturers print the Union Flag on the plugs and extension cables, but these products are not manufactured or sold in the United Kingdom. This practice has not ceased even though Hong Kong was transferred back to the People's Republic of China in 1997. “Union Jack” redirects here. ... A plug is: a device which is designed to stop a fluid from flowing through a hole. ... An extension cord (also known as a power extender or an extension lead) is a length of flexible electrical cable (flex) with a plug on one end and one or more sockets on the other end (usually of the same type as the plug). ...

Electric sockets (wiring system)

Based on the adapted version of IEE Wiring Regulations, the colonial Hong Kong Government published Code of Practice for the Electricity (Wiring) Regulation in the 1990s. This book has been revised for a few times and the latest version was published in 2003. BS 7671 is a publication from the IET (Formerly known as The IEE) in agreement with the BSI British Standards Institute (UK). ... The modern UK standards and regulations for electrical wiring no longer differ substantially from those in other European countries. ...

One worth noticing aspect is that in Government buildings, public housing estates and Government-sponsored educational institutions, British electrical products (brands include Tenby and MK electric) are often used. However, these British electrical products are not very popular in the private sector. Some people consider that British sockets are not very good-looking so they prefer other brands. Australia-based Clipsal is the most popular brand in private buildings, and some Government buildings built after the handover of Hong Kong to PRC in 1997. Harbour of Tenby in Nov, 2001 Tenby (Welsh: Dinbych-y-Pysgod, little town of the fishes) is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay. ... MK electric is a company that makes electrical accessories (plugs sockets switches conduit trunking etc). ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... PRC is a common abbreviation for: Peoples Republic of China Palestinian Red Crescent Popular Resistance Committees This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Telephone sockets

Before the handover of Hong Kong, all the domestic telephone sockets installed were BS 6312 ones but there was no stipulation on commercial telephone sockets. Both Registered Jack (RJ) and BS 6312 systems were (and are) found in commercial telephone installations. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... British telephone plug with only two pins present, from a modem cable BS6312 is the British Standard governing telephone plugs and sockets. ... A registered jack (RJ) is a standardized physical interface for connecting telecommunications equipment (commonly, a telephone jack) or computer networking equipment. ...

After the handover, the Hong Kong Government started gradually replacing the BS 6312 sockets with American RJ ones. Service providers install RJ sockets, instead of BS 6312 ones, for clients in new installation, relocation or maintenance projects. Existing BS 6312 sockets before the handover are still in use and there is no compulsory replacement programme. On July 1, 1997, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) resumed its exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, ending more than 150 years of British colonial control. ...

Computers

Keyboard layouts

In the Crown colony, United States and Chinese (Traditional) keyboards were utilized by both the colonial Hong Kong Government and the public. United Kingdom layout keyboards are rare (even not found) in computer malls in Sham Shui Po and Mong Kok. However, Japanese keyboards can be occasionally found in such computer malls. A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and English (QWERTY) letters. ... Since the Chinese language uses a logographic script — that is, a script where one or two characters corresponds roughly to one word or meaning — there are vastly more characters, or glyphs, than there are keys on a standard computer keyboard. ... There are two major English language keyboard layouts, the United States layout and the United Kingdom layout. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... Skyline of Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po (Chinese: 深水埗; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: sam1 sui2 bo2, Yale: sam seuí bouh; Mandarin Pinyin: shen1 shui3 bu4; lit. ... Mong Kok or Mongkok (Chinese: 旺角; the English name is a transliteration of its older name 望角 or 芒角) is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District on Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, China. ...

Regional Settings in Microsoft products

The default regional setting of Microsoft Windows sold in Hong Kong is "English (United States)". Many users in Hong Kong are forced to have their spell checker in Microsoft Office (or a similar product) complain about locally-correct spelling like 'colour' since they did not change the default regional settings in their operating systems and software applications. Most users, however, just leave the default regional setting (English (United States)) unchanged. Windows redirects here. ... // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ...

Chinese versions of Microsoft Windows is far more popular than the English-language version among Chinese-speaking computer users in Hong Kong. Windows redirects here. ...

Moreover, since many people use Chinese versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to produce their webpages and emails, many English-language websites and emails here have the encoding "Chinese (Traditional)" (Big5) rather than "Western European" (ISO-8859-1). Unicode webpages are also not very common. Setting the browser to the encoding of "Western European" to view these Big5 Hong Kong webpages may cause some characters (for example, ',", £, € etc.) to be displayed incorrectly. Windows redirects here. ... Microsoft Office is an office suite from Microsoft, which is available on the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. ... -1... ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 or less formally as Latin-1, is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... Browsing redirects here Browser can refer to: Browser - a type of herbivore whose nutrition generally comes from high growing plants, like trees, rather than a grazer that eats from the ground. ...

TV Broadcast

Analogue

Hong Kong uses the UK PAL-I broadcast system. See the article PAL. Stereo audio is under NICAM system, which is the same as British standard. For other uses, see PAL (disambiguation). ... NICAM (known also as NICAM 728, after the 728 kbit/s bitstream it is sent over), Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex, is a format for digital sound on analogue television transmissions. ...

Digital

See the article digital television. Hong Kong has confirmed to use the system developed by PR China in 2006, which is different from the current system used in Europe or America. Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a...

DVD

In the UK DVDs are region 2, of PAL standard. However, even though Hong Kong is under control of the People's Republic of China, DVDs found here are not Region 6 (for users in the Mainland China). Officially, the DVDs in Hong Kong are region 3 in NTSC colour coding. DVDs of region 1 (US, NTSC format) or region 2 (Europe, PAL format) can be also found in local shops like HMV), which is not an issue for the local market as DVD players commonly sold in the shops are multi-region. Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ... For other uses, see PAL (disambiguation). ... ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Telecommunications

Hong Kong uses the GSM 900 & 1800 standards and some operators offer 3G services (3g 2100). See also article on the Telecommunications industry in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has one of the most mature, sophisticated and competitive telecommunications markets in the world. ...

Analogue Video

Similar with the US, Japan and Australia, S-Video is commonly used in colonial and post-handover Hong Kong equipments. These ports are commonly found there on consumer TVs, DVD players, video tape recorders and game consoles sold there. Even the UK uses the higher-quality RGB signal transmission scheme provided by European Standard SCART, SCART ports are seldom found in Hong Kong equipment. S-Video (also known as Y/C) is a baseband analog video format offering a higher quality signal than composite video, but a lower quality than RGB and component video. ... REDIRECT RGB color model ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

For RF signals, the Belling-Lee connector or IEC 169-2 connector are very commonly used in equipments sold in Hong Kong. However, same as Europe, the 75-ohm F connector is used by Cable TV Hong Kong instead of Belling-Lee ones. TV aerial socket and plug Aerial socket on a television set The Belling-Lee connector or IEC 169-2 connector, more often simply known as TV aerial plug or PAL connector, is the traditional European antenna connector for TV sets and FM-radio receivers. ... Male F Connector The F connector is a type of RF connector commonly used for over the air terrestrial television, cable television and universally for satellite television and cable modems, usually with RG-6/U cable or (in older installations) with RG-59/U cable. ... Cable TV Hong Kong (Hong Kong Cable/HKCTV), previously known as Wharf Cable before October 1998, is owned and operated by i-CABLE Communications Limited. ...

See also

• Colonial Hong Kong
• History of Hong Kong

Flag of colonial Hong Kong, a Blue Ensign with the colonys coat of arms. ... The History of Hong Kong began as a coastal island geographically located in southern China. ...

External links

• GSM Roaming - Hong Kong