Tobias Burnus
Question of the complete novice in Chinese: Next to the input parameter field I see with "intelligent pinyin" a button labeled "中" and three other symbols still unknown to me. What is ment by those?
The symbol which looks like a crescent moon toggles between full width and half width. You can use that for example to write full with LAT IN. The next button to the right which shows a period and a comma toggles between the full width and the half width forms for punctuation.
Well, I actually ment what happens when you click on the "中" button and toggle it. But thanks to make me fully understand how half/full symbols work.
Ah, I see. When clicking on the 中 button, you get 中 -> Chinese 简 -> simplified Chinese 繁 -> traditional Chinese 英 -> English Apparently this intelligent Pinyin input method can be tuned to prefer simplified or traditional Chinese. I don't know any details here as I don't speak Chinese and therefore don't use this input method.
I figured out that, e.g., unicode works by entering the entering the hex code of the character, but what means "unicode", "utf-8",
No, the 4 digit Unicode code point, i.e. UCS2 (=UTF-16 in the BMP).
Well, I ment the hexencoded number shown in the unicode charts at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ since I saw somewhere the decimal version of it (Word or OpenOffice, I forgot).
Yes, the hex numbers in these unicode charts are the same as UCS2 or
UTF-16.
Until know I didn't notice that the button labeled "Unicode"
in the "RAW CODE" input method can be toggled to "UTF-8".
If you select that, you can input the UTF-8 code instead of the 4
digit Unicode code point. For example you can input 直by it's UTF-8
sequence "e79bb4" instead of it's Unicode code point "76f4".
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Mike FABIAN