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Claw –
係!
Though hai5 (係) is a character in standard Chinese too (xi4 in Mandarin, the same xi in guanxi:
關係/关系) so that probably wasn’t a good example. I wrote up a post a while back that had a
bunch of Cantonese characters… you can see it here:
http://www. /viewto…ghlight=#16803
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benotnobody –
Quote:
Though hai5 (係) is a character in standard Chinese too (xi4 in Mandarin, the same xi in guanxi:
關係/关系) so that probably wasn’t a good example.
um, yeah… that was just the first character that sprang to mind, I didn’t actually think if
there were any mando equivalents. I suppose its cause I don’t think I’ve ver seen it used it as a
word on its own.
HSC –
Imron,
Quote:
Wubizixing used to come installed by default with the Chinese version of Windows, but for some
reason they left it out of Windows XP. However if you install the Asian Language pack for
OfficeXP…
Is this a separate software that is available for purchase? I did a quick search for it but came
up with nothing. Is it available for Office 2003?
Quote:
… If you can’t or don’t want to do that, then you can also try using IMEGen to generate the
required IME files. Check out http://www.sinoptic.ch/internet/wubi/ for more info…
I followed this procedure, but at the final stages where the three dialog boxes are supposed to
pop up to confirm the bitmap, icon and help files, this stage is skipped and I am not able to find
the IME anywhere (I’m using Windows XP SP2, by the way).
Any other suggestions as to what I can try? Thanks.
atitarev –
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Originally Posted by Claw
The functionality to write with your mouse comes with Windows XP too if you install the “Chinese
(Taiwan)” input method editor. After you install it, just choose “Chinese (Taiwan)” in the
language bar, click on the Tool menu button, and go to “IME pad.” This page talks a bit about it
(though the example uses the Japanese version of the IME pad):
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/h…IME_Paper.mspx
It works pretty well and I haven’t found it to be particularly buggy. You can write both
traditional and simplified Chinese. I often use it in order to input Cantonese-specific characters
that I don’t know how to type in pinyin.
IMHO, I don’t think you can draw simplified Chinese characters with Windows IME – only
traditional. Chinese (Taiwan) IME has the IME Pad, Chinese (PRC) IME doesn’t have it.
As for Cantonese specific characters – it was meant, you can draw them, rather then type in pinyin
and then convert. MS IME doesn’t support the full set of Cantonese characters – you need to
install a Chinese input utility and other things (too many steps to describe).
zhwj –
The absolute best Wubi method I’ve found is one from Shun Software. It has a 30-day trial period,
and it’s well worth the shareware cost, including the massive full Unicode CJK set if you have the
proper font installed. One nice thing is that you can switch to pinyin and it will tell you what
the proper code is for the characters when you input them.
A nice lightweight free one, that I use because I haven’t taken the trouble to wire the Shun
Software shareware fee yet, is 念青五笔 (search for a download). It’s simple, small, and
doesn’t come loaded with all sorts of horrible extras like some programs do. Making up new phrases
is easy, too, so you can add Cantonese compounds. And the guy dedicates it to his girlfriend, so
what more do you want?
For mouse input, my version of the MS pinyin IME (PRC version) has the panel that accepts both
simplified and traditional, visible in this screenshot below (note both 为 and 爲 as options):
atitarev –
Where did you get this version? Can you give a link. My PRC version doesn’t have a pad.
zhwj –
I got it when I installed Chinese MS Office, but I think it’s the same MS Pinyin 2003 available
here.
Edit: that’s actually only version 3.0. Version 2003 with extra goodies is here.
atitarev –
zhwj, I have sent a PM about this link.
atitarev –
I installed the MS Pinyin IME 2003 from the link (thanks to Zhwj’s PM). I now have option from it
to choose simple/full forms (for full forms I could use Taiwan IME) but there is still no IME Pad
to draw simplified characters with a mouse.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d…playlang=zh-cn
HSC –
zhwj,
Thanks for the details on how to acquire Wubi IMEs.
Quote:
The absolute best Wubi method I’ve found is one from Shun Software.
I have not tried this one yet, but will do so soon.
Quote:
A nice lightweight free one, that I use because I haven’t taken the trouble to wire the Shun
Software shareware fee yet, is 念青五笔 (search for a download).
I found the main web site and it’s download page at
http://input.foruto.com/nianqing/gb/soft/nqwbx.htm
1. The set up program’s dialog boxes are not Unicode encoded so the Chinese characters don’t
show well under English Windows. This can be corrected by changing the default code page, but
just though I’d mention it. I don’t like changing the code page because it causes some other
problems for me.
2. I noticed that the interface for this program is extremely similar to a Cang-Jie IME I
installed. Both parties must be using some standard IME SDK. It is a Malaysian software called
仓颉国际, I think. Anyway, I had a question on the interface: please see below.
3. How do you uninstall these IMEs? I could not find any uninstall routine. Good thing I use
Norton GoBack!
When I open my properties for my Cangjie or Wubi IME, I get a section labeled: 编码查询. The
first entry under this section is [无], followed by an entry for each “Keyboard” installed for
the Text Service in question (minus the Keyboard for whose property dialog I opened). In my case,
I have the Chinese (Simplified) – Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0, Chinese CangJie-5-International, and
the Nianqing Wubi. So, under 编码查询 I have three entries:
[无],微软拼音输入法,念青五笔输入法。The Cangjie one is not listed, because
I am in the properties of Cangjie. Can you tell me what this section is for? Looks like I can set
up my Cangjie IME to use Wubi mappings and the such. Don’t know why I would want to do that though.
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