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Chinese Computer Language Question 2
Next question deals with Chinese characters. This is an example I
found: 3^1z*:+e+h.x.',O+D1`&3%N*:!CABAB! Did that start out as characters and the computer automatically typed it as that but if I had Chinese character capability it would translate it for me?
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Re:Chinese Computer Language Question 2
Hi Abby,
Here¡¦s my reply to your message #2. I can¡¦t seem to find your message 1 anywhere. Did it get put on later, or do you maybe need to try posting it again?
The strange information you see in many of the windows occur because international characters have been encoded so that they can be recognized by your browser. You¡¦re not seeing the international characters in their intended form because you haven¡¦t set your browser up to decode them. If you are using MS Internet Explorer, you can go to the View menu and select Encoding / More. You will see a listing of many different languages, including, perhaps three settings for Chinese. You may have to try all of these in order to find the one that makes the Chinese characters come up correctly.
I have to confess that I don¡¦t have software on my computer that lets me generate these characters. I had a program some years ago when I was taking Chinese, but it¡¦s not compatible with my current version of Windows. So unless I can say what I want to say by rearranging characters my correspondent used in her message to me, I am stuck with using PinYin Romanization to express myself in Chinese.
If anyone is aware of a font or a program I can download that will allow me to enter Chinese Characters on MLE, please let me know.
I tried going online and looking at this text in your message, but the copy in your message isn¡¦t working correctly. Can you get me the message number of the post where you found this?
Thanks.
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Re:Re:Chinese Computer Language Question 2
What is your current version of Windows? Win XP and possibly Win 2000 have Asian character support built-in.
In Win XP, you can enable non-Roman characters using the Regional and Language options setting on the Control Panel. You may need your Windows CD and/or a visit to the Microsoft web site in order to install the Asian fonts. I don't think they're part of the default (US) installation.
Once you've done that, you can switch freely between English and Chinese or Japanese (in programs that support them). In Japanese, you type the word you want phonetically, then pick the appropriate characters from a drop-down menu. Presumably Chinese works much the same way.
I'm afraid I can't help if you're using a different version of windows. There are lots of resources out there for Japanese, so a Google search will probably turn up similar tools for Chinese.
Good luck!
Katherine
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