Chinese Characters

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Hello All,

I want to be able to type and print Chinese characters
through Windows. How do I activate this? Do I need a
translator program or is it as simple as turning something
on in Windows? Do I need a special keyboard? Printer?
Please help!!
 
See here:

Writing Chinese Under Windows 2000 Professional/XP
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/chinese_write.htm

Do you need a special keyboard? Well that depends on how much writing
you want to do. Consider that the Chinese has something like 250
characters and your AT style keyboard has 104 keys. Do you realize how
much mouse clicking and Alt- key combinations you are going to have to
punch to write anything? Can you imagine writing an essay in english
with only the Alt Key and numeric keypad on your pc? Chinese keyboards
are quite a thing to look at... they are pretty big and they look like
the cockpit ceiling of a Boeing 747.

John
 
Hello All,

I want to be able to type and print Chinese characters
through Windows. How do I activate this? Do I need a
translator program or is it as simple as turning something
on in Windows? Do I need a special keyboard? Printer?
Please help!!
Click to expand...

In Windows 2000, click Start, Settings, Control Panel
Then double-click on Regional Options.

When the Regional Options window comes up, in the middle, the section that
says "Language settings for the system, put a checkmark for Traditional
Chinese (or Simplified Chinese).

Click the tab that says "Input Locles" and then click Add. For Input
Locale, pick Chinese (Taiwan), and for the Keyboard layout/IME, you pick
whichever one you are familiar with.

Click OK and then put a checkmark for Enable indicator on taskbar so you
can switch between English/Chinese input quickly. Click OK again. You
will need the original Windows 2000 CD so it can copy some fonts over.

After a reboot, you should be able to type Chinese from Windows 2000 (or
XP).

If you have no idea how to type in Chinese, you can always get one of those
tablets and you can just write Chinese and input characters that way. I
have one and the accuracy is amazing.

-lyj
 
John said:
See here:

Writing Chinese Under Windows 2000 Professional/XP
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/chinese_write.htm


Do you need a special keyboard? Well that depends on how much writing
you want to do. Consider that the Chinese has something like 250
characters and your AT style keyboard has 104 keys.
Click to expand...

Chinese has 250 characters? More like 8,000-10,000 in common use, and
as many as 50,000 if you count archaic and obsolete characters.
Do you realize how
much mouse clicking and Alt- key combinations you are going to have to
punch to write anything?
Click to expand...

Actually, typing Chinese on an English keyboard is not nearly so bad as
you make it out to be. :-)
 
Sort the newsgroup messages by subject and go to "Chinese" (or search
the messages subjects for Chinese) and you will find information on
that. There were a few posts on the subject only a few days ago.

John
 
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