Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (39 mails)

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

Tobias Burnus <burnus@xxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

>>>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   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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