Apple Apple Computer Language Chinese - Language Kits User's Manual

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Contents

Preface About This Manual 7

Who Should Read This Manual? 7 Where to Get Help 7

1 About the Chinese Language Kit 9

What Is the Chinese Language Kit? 9

Writing-Based Input Systems 10 Sound-Based Input Systems 11 Other Features of the Chinese Language Kit 11

Other Chinese Language Kit Software 12

The Chinese Language Kit Fonts 12 The Localized SimpleText Programs 12 The Language Register Program 13 Chinese Utility Applications 13

What Are Scripts? 14

2 Installing and Setting Up the Software 15

System Requirements 15 Installing the Software 16

Where the Files Are Located 17 Using the Keyboard Menu 18 Displaying Finder Names in Chinese 18 Changing Sorting Order With the Text Control Panel 19 Choosing a Language for an Application Program 20 Converting Plug-ins 20

Removing the Chinese Language Kit 21

3Using the Traditional Chinese Input Method 23

What Is the Traditional Chinese Input Method? 23 Starting to Use the Traditional Chinese Input Method 23

Step 1: Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method 24 Step 2: Choose an Input Mode 25 Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences 25 Step 4: Enter the Character 25

Entering and Editing Characters 26

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Cangjie Input Mode 26 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Jianyi Input Mode 29 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Dayi Input Mode 31 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Pinyin Input Mode 34 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Zhuyin Input Mode 37 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Big5 Code Input Mode 39 Entering Roman Characters 40 Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters 41 Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document 42 Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 42

Using Palettes 44

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input 44 Using the Selection Palette 45 Using the Operation Palette 45

Using the Character Table 46 Finding the Input Code for a Character 47 Selecting Preferences 48

Selecting General Preferences 48

Selecting Dictionary Preferences 50

Selecting Input Mode Preferences 55 Resetting Default Preferences 55

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4Using the Simplified Chinese Input Method 57

What Is the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method? 57 Starting to Use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method 57

Step 1: Choose the Simplified Chinese Input Method 58 Step 2: Choose an Input Mode 59 Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences 59 Step 4: Enter the Character 59

Entering and Editing Characters 60

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Xing Input Mode 60 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Hua Input Mode 64 Entering Chinese Characters Using the ABC Input Mode 66 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Quwei Input Mode 76 Entering Roman Characters 77 Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters 79 Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document 79 Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 80

Using Palettes 82

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input 82 Using the Selection Palette 83 Using the Operation Palette 83

Using the Character Table 84 Finding the Input Code for a Character 85 Selecting Preferences 86

Selecting General Preferences 87

Selecting ABC Preferences 88

Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences 89

Selecting Dictionary Preferences 90 Resetting Default Preferences 94

5 Troubleshooting 95

Appendix Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese 97

Phonetic Transcriptions 97 Wade-Giles System Exceptions 100

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PREFACE

About This Manual

Who Should Read This Manual?

This manual describes how to use the software provided with the Chinese Language Kit to enter Chinese characters on your Mac OS computer.

It provides basic instructions for using the software to enter Chinese characters. Some of the procedures described in this manual require you to know how to write Chinese characters, construct characters using systems of radicals, or spell Chinese characters phonetically using Roman characters or Chinese symbols.

To use the Chinese Language Kit you need to know how to use your Mac OS computer. If you are not familiar with how to use your computer, see the manual that came with it.

You can use the Chinese Language Kit with application programs that are localized for Chinese. To learn how to use these applications and to determine whether they provide special features for working with Chinese characters, see the manuals that came with the applications.

Where to Get Help

The Apple World Wide Web site provides useful information about Apple’s products and services, including help with solving problems you may have with your software. You may alsoﬁnd recent updates to Apple software.

http://www.apple.com/

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About the Chinese Language Kit

What Is the Chinese Language Kit?

The Chinese Language Kit provides software that allows you to enter Chinese characters on your Mac OS computer. You can use Chinese characters for the names of ﬁles and folders in the Finder and as text in documents you create in your application programs.

Most computer keyboards are designed to type one-byte Roman characters. The Chinese Language Kit software adapts your Roman-based keyboard so you can enter two-byte Chinese characters on your computer. This software is called an input method, which is based on Apple’s WorldScript technology. (For more information about this technology, see “What Are Scripts?” on page 14 of this chapter.)

The Chinese Language Kit provides two input methods for the two Chinese writing systems: Traditional Chinese and Simpliﬁed Chinese. Each system uses many characters, and while the characters in each system are related, they are different.

Both the Traditional Chinese and Simpliﬁed Chinese input methods provide several input modes for entering characters. There are three types of input modes based on the way characters are written, the way characters sound, and numeric codes for each character.

The next two sections provide general information about the writing-based and sound-based input modes. See Chapter 3 for instructions on how to use the Traditional Chinese Input Method and its input modes. See Chapter 4 for instructions on how to use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method and its input modes.

Writing-Based Input Systems

Simpliﬁed Chinese uses over 6,000 characters, while Traditional Chinese uses over 16,000 characters. These characters are used individually as words. In addition, two or three characters can be combined to form a phrase, which represents a word.

Chinese characters have three levels: strokes used to draw the characters; combinations of strokes which form simple graphic elements, called radicals, that make up the characters; and the whole character.

Note: The word radical is also used to designate the root of a character. Writing-based input modes are either stroke-based or radical-based:

m A stroke-based input system deﬁnes the basic strokes used to write Chinese characters

and assigns the strokes to keys on the Roman-based keyboard.

m A radical-based input system deﬁnes the radicals used to write Chinese characters and

assigns the radicals to keys on the Roman-based keyboard.

To enter a character, you type the keys for the strokes or radicals in the order speciﬁed by the input mode to compose the characters. This order is based on the way Chinese characters are written. To use a stroke or radical input system, you must know how to write Chinese, as well as understand how the input mode works.

Stroke and radical input modes are popular with Chinese speakers because they are based on writing the characters. They allow you to enter Chinese characters rapidly and without converting them to a foreign writing system, as the Pinyin input mode does.

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Because these input modes deﬁne a limited number of strokes or radicals, they do not include all the elements used in Chinese characters. In addition, it may not be clear which stroke or radical to use for a character in some cases.

These input modes limit the number of strokes or radicals you can use to designate a character. The limit can be less than the number of elements actually used to write the character. For example, the Wubi Hua input mode, which is a stroke input system, allows up toﬁve strokes for a character, but many Chinese characters require more than ﬁve strokes.

Because of these limitations, you may have to select the character you want from several alternatives after you type the keys for the strokes or radicals that make up the character.

Sound-Based Input Systems

Sound-based, or phonetic, input modes allow you to write the Chinese characters based on how characters sound in Mandarin Chinese. There are two types:

m Typing speciﬁc keys for Chinese phonetic symbols (bo po mo fo)

To use the Chinese phonetic symbols effectively, you need to know how to speak Chinese

characters and transcribe them into the phonetic symbols. m Typing Roman characters to spell the Chinese characters using the Pinyin phonetic

transcription system

Pinyin is popular with users who do not know how to write Chinese characters and may

have limited knowledge of how to pronounce Chinese words.

Because Chinese words are distinguished by subtle tonal variations that are difﬁcult to

transcribe phonetically, many different Chinese characters have the same phonetic

spelling in Pinyin. When you enter the Pinyin for a Chinese character, the input system

often identiﬁes many characters with that spelling and you must choose the character you

want. For example, 34 Traditional Chinese characters are transcribed in Pinyin as “ren” and

appear as alternatives if you enter these Roman characters.

Note: The Traditional Chinese Pinyin input mode allows you to enter a number for the

tonal variation to narrow the list of alternatives.

Although entering Chinese using Pinyin requires several steps, it allows people who are

notﬂuent in writing the language to create a Chinese-language document.

Other Features of the Chinese Language Kit

In addition to allowing you to enter Chinese characters, both the Traditional Chinese and Simpliﬁed Chinese input methods provide other important features:

m an input mode that allows you to type Roman characters m an input mode for entering AppleShare passwords m a dictionary in which you can deﬁne your own words and phrases m palettes for looking up the input keys for characters, punctuation, and symbols m an option to show the key combinations to enter characters in the selection palette m an option to display other characters frequently associated with a character you enter

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Other Chinese Language Kit Software

The Chinese Language Kit includes other software to help you work with the input methods.

The Chinese Language Kit Fonts

The Chinese Language Kit provides fonts for Traditional Chinese and Simpliﬁed Chinese. These fonts contain the Chinese characters that you will see in your documents on screen and when you print them.

Note: The Chinese fonts include some Roman characters as one-byte and two-byte characters.

The Traditional Chinese fonts are

m Taipei, a bitmap font m Apple LiSung Light, a printing-style TrueType font m Apple LiGothic Medium, a bold TrueType font m BiauKai, a brushstroke-style TrueType font

The Simpliﬁed Chinese fonts are

m Beijing,a bitmap font m Song,a printing-style TrueType font m Fang Song, a handwriting-style TrueType font m Hei,a bold-style TrueType font m Kai, a brushstroke-style TrueType font

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The Localized SimpleText Programs

The Chinese Language Kit includes two localized versions of Apple’s SimpleText application:

m Traditional Chinese SimpleText, localized with Traditional Chinese characters m Simpliﬁed Chinese SimpleText, localized with Simpliﬁed Chinese characters

These programs allow you to write basic text documents. You can use them while you’re learning to use the Chinese Language Kit input methods.

Note: You can use any application that supports the WorldScript II technology with the Chinese Language Kit. The program does not need to be localized into Chinese.

The Language Register Program

Some programs are localized to display menus, dialog boxes, help balloons, and other items in Chinese characters. However, if a program does not indicate to the system the language and font to use to display these items, you will not see the localized version with the Chinese Language Kit installed.

Note: You will see the localized version of the application if you have a version of the Mac OS localized in Chinese installed on your computer.

The Language Register provided with the Chinese Language Kit lets you register these programs so that they display menus and other items in Chinese characters. To learn how to use the Language Register, see “Choosing a Language for an Application Program” on page 20 in Chapter 2.

Chinese Utility Applications

The Chinese Language Kit includes several applications in the Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folders).

Program Description

TrueType Font Editor Lets you create your own TrueType Chinese characters that you

can use in your documents

Input Method Plug-in Converter Lets you convert a text ﬁle that speciﬁes an input method plug-

in so that it can be used with the input method. Plug-ins can

add input modes and other features to the input method. Sample (SC) and Sample (TC) Example plug-ins you can use to learn how to write one Simpliﬁed Chinese

Dictionary Tool (ﬁlename“Simp. Chinese DicTool”)

Lets you create and edit dictionaries that you can use with the

Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method

The Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool (ﬁlename “Trad. Chinese DicTool”) application is also provided with the Chinese Language Kit and it continues to be used as the dictionary for the Traditional Chinese Input Method. It’s in the Extensions folder.

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What Are Scripts?

The input methods of the Chinese Language Kit are based on Apple’s WorldScript technology. With WorldScript software known as script systems installed on your computer, you can work with different languages and the writing systems they use.

A script system tells your computer a number of things, such as

m the characters the script contains and the keystrokes that produce each character m the direction in which text ﬂows (left to right or right to left) m how to sort words m how to separate words and lines of text m how to format dates, times, numbers, and currency

The script used by your system software is your computer’s primary script. It determines the characters used in the menus, dialog boxes, and other items on your computer screen, and the formats used for dates, times, numbers, and currency.

For example, if you’re working in English, then the Roman script is your primary script. This means that the Roman character set is available to you and that text ﬂows from left to right as you type characters.

If you install a language kit that uses a different script, that script becomes a secondary script for your system. For example, when you install the Chinese Language Kit on a computer using the Roman script as the primary script, Chinese is the secondary script.

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The same script can be used by several languages, if they share most of the same characters. Following are some examples of scripts and some of the languages they support:

m Roman—French, Italian, Spanish, English, and German m Arabic—Arabic and Persian m Cyrillic—Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Bulgarian m Hebrew—Hebrew, Yiddish m Indian—Devanagari (Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali), Gujarati, and Gurmukhi

(Punjabi)

m Japanese m Korean m Thai

The Chinese Language Kit provides two scripts: Traditional Chinese and Simpliﬁed Chinese. Each of these scripts deﬁnes a keyboard-based input method. You can install either script, or both, on your computer.

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Installing and Setting Up the Software

This chapter describes the system requirements for using the Chinese Language Kit and explains how to install the software on a computer. It also explains how to

m choose a keyboard layout or input method from the Keyboard menu m use Chinese characters for ﬁle and folder names in the Finder m select the behavior for the Traditional Chinese Input Method using the Text control panel m register an application that is localized for Chinese using the Language Register program

System Requirements

To use the Chinese Language Kit, you need the following hardware and software:

Item Requirement

Computer Mac OS–based with a 68030, 68040, or PowerPC™ microprocessor RAM At least 12 megabytes (MB) of actual RAM Disk space (free)

System software Version 7.6 or later

When you are installing the software, the amount of disk space required may be greater than the amount shown here because the Installer program temporarily saves files it is replacing.

The amount of disk space required may be less than 40 MB depending on the version of system software installed on your computer and the size of your hard disk.

Using Easy Install requires up to 40 MB. Using Custom Install to install

m the minimum Traditional Chinese Input Method requires 6 MB m the minimum Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method requires 4 MB m the complete Traditional Chinese Input Method requires 42 MB m the complete Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method requires 37 MB m the TrueType Font Editor application requires 17 kilobytes (K)

Installing the Software

You install the Chinese Language Kit software using the Installer program located on the Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc.

Note: You can install the Chinese Language Kit on a computer with a localized version of system software. If the computer has the Traditional Chinese Mac OS installed on it, you cannot install the Traditional Chinese Input Method or the Traditional Chinese fonts on the computer. If it has the Simpliﬁed Chinese Mac OS installed, you cannot install the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method or the Simpliﬁed Chinese fonts on the computer.

To install the Chinese Language Kit software, follow these steps:

1 Insert the Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc in your CD-ROM disc drive. 2 Double-click the Installer icon. 3 Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears. 4 Read the License Agreement that appears, then click Agree to continue.

The Installer dialog box appears.

5 To install the basic software of the Chinese Language Kit, leave Easy Install selected.

Easy Install installs the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method, the Traditional Chinese Input Method, three Simpliﬁed Chinese fonts, and three Traditional Chinese fonts.

If you know exactly which parts of the software you want to install, choose Custom Install from the pop-up menu and select the software you want to install.

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Warning If you install only the input method fonts, you will not be able to use the fonts,

and your system may not work properly.

If an item has a triangle next to it, you can click the triangle to see the individual items that are installed if you select the main item. You can select the main item to install all the items under it, or you can select individual items to install.

6 Make sure that the Destination Disk shows the hard disk on which you want to install the

software. If the destination disk isn’t correct, click Switch Disk until the correct disk appears.

7 When you are ready, click Install. 8 Follow the directions that appear onscreen. 9 If a message appears telling you that you need to restart your computer, click Restart.

Where the Files Are Located

The Chinese Language Kit installs ﬁles on the hard disk, in the Mac OS Read Me folder, in the Apple Extras folder, and in the Extensions folder and Fonts folder in the System Folder.

Note: Theﬁles installed in the Extensions folder depend on the system software you are using. The following tables do not include these ﬁles.

The Read Me ﬁle is installed in the Mac OS Read folder (on your hard disk.) The Traditional Chinese Input Method uses these ﬁles:

Item Location

Fonts: Taipei, Apple LiSung, Apple LiGothic1Fonts folder (in the System Folder) Traditional Chinese SimpleText program Hard disk Language Register program

Key Caps program

Apple Extras folder (on your hard disk)

Chinese Utilities folder Input Method Plug-in Converter program

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder)

Sample (TC)

You can use Custom Install to install the BiauKai font.

Key Caps is installed in the Apple Menu Items folder (in the System Folder) if an older version is already in the folder.

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method uses these ﬁles:

Item Location

Fonts: Beijing, Kai, Song

Simpliﬁed Chinese SimpleText program Hard disk Language Register program

Key Caps program Chinese Utilities folder

Input Method Plug-in Converter program Sample (SC)

Fonts folder (in the System Folder)

Apple Extras folder

(on your hard disk)

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder)

You can use Custom Install to install the Fang Song and Hei fonts.

Key Caps is installed in the Apple Menu Items folder (in the System Folder) if an older version is already in the folder.

You can use Custom Install to install the TrueType Font Editor program. If you do, it’s in the Chinese Utilities folder.

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Using the Keyboard Menu

After you install the Chinese Language Kit and restart your computer, the Keyboard menu icon appears at the right end of the menu bar.

Keyboard menu icon

You use the Keyboard menu to select the keyboard layout or input method you want to use. The Keyboard menu has a section for each script installed on your computer. The section for the primary script of your system software appears at the top of the menu. If the primary script of your system software is the Roman script, then the ﬁrst section of the menu lists the keyboard layouts available for Roman-based languages. After you install the Chinese Language Kit, a section appears at the bottom of the menu for each script you installed.

If the primary script of your system software is either the Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed Chinese script, then the section for that script appears at the top of the Keyboard menu. The section for the other script appears at the bottom of the menu.

To select a keyboard layout or an input method, do one of the following:

m Choose the item from the menu. m Type x–Option–Space bar to select the next item in the same section of the menu, if you

select the option in the Keyboard control panel.

m Type x–Space bar to select an item in the next section of the Keyboard menu.

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When you choose a keyboard layout or input method, the icon for the Keyboard menu changes to show the current selection.

Displaying Finder Names in Chinese

After you install the Chinese Language Kit, you can display ﬁle and folder names in the Finder with Chinese characters. To do this, you must change the font used in the Finder. How you do this depends on the version of the system software you are using.

If you are using system software prior to version 8.0:

1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Views control panel. 2 Choose the font you want to use from the “Font for views” pop-up menu.

m To use Traditional Chinese characters, choose Taipei or another Traditional Chinese font. m To use Simpliﬁed Chinese characters, choose Beijing or another Simpliﬁed Chinese font.

3 Change the size of the font to 9 or 12 point. 4 Close the control panel.

If you are using system software version 8.0 or later:

1 In the Finder, choose Preferences from the Edit menu. 2 Choose the font you want to use from the “Font for views” pop-up menu.

m To use Traditional Chinese characters, choose Taipei or another Traditional Chinese font. m To use Simpliﬁed Chinese characters, choose Beijing or another Simpliﬁed Chinese font.

3 Change the size of the font to 9 or 12 point. 4 Close the Preferences window.

Because the Chinese fonts contain the most common Roman characters, ﬁle and folder names in Roman characters will continue to be displayed correctly.

Important If the primary script of your system software is non-Roman (for example,

Japanese or Korean) or you use special characters (such as é) in ﬁle and folder names, those ﬁle and folder names will not be displayed correctly.

Changing Sorting Order With the Text Control Panel

You can use the Text control panel to change the behavior of a script. This affects

m the order in which text is sorted m how uppercase and lowercase characters are converted m how words are separated from one another

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides only one sorting order. The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides three sorting orders. To change the sorting order for Traditional Chinese, follow these steps:

1 Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Text control panel. 2 Choose Traditional Chinese from the Script pop-up menu. 3 Choose the behavior you want to use from the Behavior pop-up menu.

Choose this: To sort by this:

Code-order sort The Big5 Code code number Radical-stroke sort Radicals ﬁrst, then strokes Stroke-radical sort Strokes ﬁrst, then radicals

4 Close the Text control panel.

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Choosing a Language for an Application Program

If you open a program localized in Chinese and it does not display menus, dialog boxes, Balloon Help, and other items in Chinese characters, you should register the program using the Language Register application.

To register a program localized in Chinese, follow these steps:

1 Open the Language Register program in the Apple Extras folder.

The Language Register dialog box appears.

2 Choose the language to register the program with from the Language pop-up menu:

Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed Chinese.

3 Click Register. 4 In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the application you want to register. 5 Click Register. 6 Click OK in the dialog box that appears. 7 Click OK in the Language Register dialog box to make Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed

Chinese the default language used by the Language Register application and to close the application.

Click Cancel to close the application without changing the default language. To register a program in the default language, drag the program to the Language Register

application. You can make copies of the Language Register application with different default languages selected to register programs.

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You can register a program with only one language. If you decide to register a program with a different language after you have registered it with Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed Chinese, follow this procedure and choose the language in step 2.

If you change the name of a program after you register it, it will no longer be registered.

Converting Plug-ins

Plug-ins provide additional features and capabilities to the input methods. To create a plug-in you specify what the plug-in does using a text ﬁle. See the “Sample (SC)” or the “Sample (TC)” text ﬁles in the Chinese Utilities folder for an example of an input method plug-in.

When you have created the plug-in text ﬁle, you need to convert it using the Input Method Plug-in Converter program so that you can use it with the input method.

To convert a plug-in, follow these steps:

1 Locate and open the Input Method Plug-in Converter.

It is in the Chinese Utilities folder in the Apple Extras folder.

2 Choose Open from the File menu. 3 In the dialog box that appears, locate the text ﬁle for the plug-in and open it.

After you convert a plug-in, place it in the Input Method Plug-in folder, which is in the Extensions folder (in the System Folder) on your hard disk and restart your computer. If there isn’t an Input Method Plug-in folder in the Extensions folder, create one.

Removing the Chinese Language Kit

If you decide you want to remove the Chinese Language Kit software, you use the same Installer program you used to install the software.

To remove the Chinese Language Kit software, follow these steps:

1 Insert the Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc in the CD-ROM disc drive. 2 Double-click the Installer icon. 3 Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears. 4 Click Agree when the License Agreement dialog box appears.

The Installer dialog box appears.

5 Choose Custom Remove from the pop-up menu. 6 Click to select the software you want to remove.

Warning If you remove the “Minimum Simpliﬁed Chinese and Beijing Font” or the

“Minimum Traditional Chinese and Taipei Font” option and you do not remove the other input method fonts, you will not be able to use the fonts and your system software may not work properly.

7 Make sure that the Destination Disk is the hard disk from which you want to remove the

Chinese Language Kit. If the destination disk isn’t correct, click Switch Disk until the correct disk is shown.

8 When you are ready, click Remove. 9 Follow any directions that appear onscreen.

10 When the Installer ﬁnishes, you may need to restart your computer.

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Using the Traditional Chinese Input Method

What Is the Traditional Chinese Input Method?

The Traditional Chinese Input Method allows you to enter traditional-style Chinese characters, punctuation, and symbols. The Traditional Chinese Input Method includes over 13,000 traditional Chinese characters, which you can enter using one of several input modes.

The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides six input modes for entering Chinese characters and the Password input mode for entering AppleShare passwords. In addition, the input method allows you to

m open palettes for looking up and entering characters, punctuation marks, and symbols m use dictionaries created with the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool, create new

dictionaries, and add your own phrases to a dictionary

m display the key combinations to enter characters in the character selection palette m display characters frequently associated with a character you enter

This chapter describes how to use each input mode and the other features of the Traditional Chinese Input Method.

Starting to Use the Traditional Chinese Input Method

To begin to use the Traditional Chinese Input Method, follow the steps in this section. Before you start: You may want to open an application, such as Traditional Chinese

SimpleText, so that you can enter Chinese characters while learning to use the input method.

Traditional Chinese

Input Method

Step 1: Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method

All input methods installed on your computer, including those of the Chinese Language Kit, appear in the Keyboard menu at the right side of the menu bar.

If the primary script on your computer is the Roman script, the Keyboard menu shows keyboard layouts at the top. The Chinese Language Kit input methods are near the bottom. If the primary script of your system software is the Traditional Chinese script, then the input methods appear at the top of the menu.

To use the Traditional Chinese Input Method, perform this step: m Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method from the Keyboard menu.

Keyboard menu

Keyboard layouts (Layouts available on your computer may be different.)

The Pencil menu appears in the menu bar.

Pencil menu

Input modes

Choose here to view

the menu in English.

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Pencil menu

Input modes

Choose here to view the menu in Chinese.

You use the Pencil menu to choose the input mode and other options you want to use for the Traditional Chinese Input Method. Some commands are available only in certain input modes.

Important When the Pencil menu appears, it is in Chinese. If you want to see the menu

items in English, choose Show English Menu from the menu.

When the Pencil menu appears, the operation palette also appears. The operation palette lets you perform some of the same tasks that you perform by choosing commands from the Pencil menu.

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences dialog box. Click here to open the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application.

Click here to see the Character table.

Step 2: Choose an Input Mode

To choose the input mode you want to use, you can choose it from the Pencil menu, press the keys shown next to the input mode in the Pencil menu, or choose it from the pop-up menu in the operation palette.

Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences

After you choose an input mode, you may want to select other options or select preferences using the Preferences dialog box. Some options affect the behavior of all the input modes, while others are only available for certain input modes. See the next section, “Entering and Editing Characters,” to learn about the options you can select for each input mode.

Step 4: Enter the Character

How you enter characters depends on the input mode you are using. See the next section, “Entering and Editing Characters,” to learn how to enter characters using each of the input modes.

As you enter characters, you may see one or more palettes: m The input palette appears if the application or dialog box where you are entering

characters does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document or text box. (See“Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

m The selection palette appears if the input mode matches more than one Chinese

character with the keys you press. You can select and enter a character from the palette. (See“Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

If you choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu, you see the keys for entering characters in the selection palette.

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Entering and Editing Characters

The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides the following input modes.

Input mode Method for entering characters

Cangjie Press keys for the radicals deﬁned by the input mode to write

the character.

Jianyi (simple Cangjie) Press keys for the ﬁrst and last radicals deﬁned by the Cangjie

input mode to write the character.

Dayi Press keys for the radicals deﬁned by the input mode to write

the character.

Pinyin Press Roman keys to spell the character phonetically using the

Pinyin transcription system.

Zhuyin Press keys for Chinese symbols (bo po mo fo) to spell the

character phonetically. Big5 Code Type a hexadecimal code for the character. Password Type an AppleShare password.

If your AppleShare password is not accepted and you are sure you have typed the password correctly, choose this input mode before you enter the password again.

The following sections describe how to use each of the input modes provided with the Traditional Chinese Input Method.

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Cangjie Input Mode

The Cangjie input mode is a writing-based input mode. To use the Cangjie input mode, you need to know how to write Chinese characters using the radicals and the rules deﬁned by the input mode for composing Chinese characters.

Important This manual explains how to use Cangjie with the Chinese Language Kit, but

does not explain how to use the Cangjie radicals. Several books are available in Chinese that describe how to use Cangjie.

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Cangjie deﬁnes 24 radicals that you combine to specify characters. Each radical is assigned to a key on the main keyboard.

QWER

ASDF

ZXCVBNM,

YUIOP

HJ KL

To enter a character using the Cangjie input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Cangjie from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the selection palette as soon as you begin entering radicals

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu. The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Keep characters in the input

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

palette Use dictionary ﬁles Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 50.)

The input keys for phrases in the dictionary use the Dayi input mode. To enter a phrase from the dictionary using Cangjie, choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Cangjie. The selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

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3 Press the keys for the radicals to enter the character.

You can use up to ﬁve keys to enter a character. The ﬁrst two keys deﬁne the left or top component of the character, and the remaining keys deﬁne the other components of the character.

If you don’t know which radical to use, press

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

4 Do one of the following:

m Press Return to enter the character.

The Cangjie input mode searches for the ﬁrst character that matches the one you entered.

m Press the Space bar.

The Cangjie input mode searches for the ﬁrst character that matches the one you entered. If you entered the wildcard character (z), you see the selection palette.

m Press Enter to enter the radicals without converting them to a character.

5 If the selection palette appears, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in

the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Chinese character Pinyin

Cangjie keys

tyhc

Cangjie radicals

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guo

Computer dian

nao

mbwu

bvvw

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Jianyi Input Mode

The Jianyi input mode is a simpliﬁed form of Cangjie. It uses the same radicals as Cangjie. Using Jianyi to enter a character, you press the key for the ﬁrst and last radicals that you would enter using Cangjie, unless you can specify the character with a single key.

Important This manual explains how to use Jianyi with the Chinese Language Kit, but does

not explain how to use the Jianyi radicals. Several books are available in Chinese that describe how to use Jianyi.

Because you enter fewer keys to specify a character, the Jianyi input mode ﬁnds more characters that match what you have entered, so the selection palette appears more frequently.

To enter a character using the Jianyi input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Jianyi from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the selection palette as soon as you begin entering radicals

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Keep characters in the input palette

Use dictionary ﬁles Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu. The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered. Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 50.)

The input keys for phrases in the dictionary use the Dayi input mode. To enter a phrase from the dictionary using Jianyi, choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Jianyi. The selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

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3 Press the keys for the radicals to enter the character.

Unless you can specify the character with a single key, press the key for the ﬁrst and last radical that speciﬁes the character.

The input palette will appear if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

4 Do one of the following:

m Press Return to enter the character.

The Jianyi input mode enters the character speciﬁed by the radicals that is most frequently used.

m Press the Space bar to see the selection palette. m Press Enter to enter the radicals without converting them to a character.

5 If the selection palette appears, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in

the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

Computer dian

nao

Jianyi keys

Jianyi radicals

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Because the Cangjie input mode requires only one or two keys to specify some characters, you may use the same keys when using Jianyi. Following are some examples of the keys you would type in Cangjie and Jianyi for several characters.

Chinese character

Cangjie keys

Cangjie radicals

Jianyi keys

Jianyi radicals

yk yk

hvif hf

vfyiu vu

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Dayi Input Mode

The Dayi input mode uses 40 radicals that it deﬁnes and the 214 Kangxi character radicals used in Traditional Chinese. To use the Dayi input mode, you need to know how to write Chinese characters using these radicals and the rules deﬁned by the input mode for composing Chinese characters.

Important This manual explains how to use Dayi with the Chinese Language Kit, but does

not explain how to use the Dayi radicals. Several books are available in Chinese that describe how to use Dayi.

8 9 0 -

Q W E R

A S D F

Z X C V B N M , .

Y U I O P [ ]

H J K L ; '

=1 2 3 4 5 6

To enter a character, you type up to four radicals. The order in which you type the radicals to enter a character is determined by the way in which the character is written and the components that make up a character. Follow these rules:

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1 Enter radicals for the component of the character that contains the most strokes. Enter

the radicals for the ﬁrst radical, second radical, third radical, and last radical. If the same radical appears twice in this sequence only enter it once.

2 You can use a single radical for a component of a character that consists of several strokes.

Although this may mean some of the strokes of the component are not entered in the correct order, it reduces the number of radicals required to deﬁne the character.

3 Some Chinese characters have a central component with other components on the left

and right side. If the components on the sides are symmetrical, enter the radicals for the central component ﬁrst, then the outside components. If they are not symmetrical, enter the radicals from left to right.

4 If the inner component is completely surrounded by other strokes, enter the radicals for

the outside strokes ﬁrst, then the inner component.

5 If the inner component of a character is surrounded by other strokes but there is an

opening in the surrounding strokes, follow these rules:

a If the opening is to the left, right, or bottom of the inner component, then enter the

radicals for the outside strokes ﬁrst.

b If the opening is at the top, then enter the radicals for the inner component ﬁrst. c If the surrounding strokes are open on two sides with a radical on the upper-left or

upper-right, then enter the radicals for the outside strokes ﬁrst.

d If the surrounding strokes are open on two sides with a radical on the bottom-left or

bottom-right of the inner component, then enter the radicals for the inner component ﬁrst.

e Otherwise, if the inner strokes do not form a radical, then enter the radicals for the

strokes from left to right and top to bottom.

The following table provides examples of these ﬁve rules.

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Rule

Chinese character

Cangjie

key

fok0

q;;o

Dayi radicals

6 If you write a component that corresponds to a Dayi radical and then write other strokes

that cross over it, enter the Dayi radical ﬁrst.

7 To enter a phrase consisting of two or three characters, follow these rules:

m If the phrase consists of two characters, enter the ﬁrst and last radical for each

character.

m If the phrase consists of three or more characters, enter the ﬁrst radical for the ﬁrst,

second, and third characters, and the last radical for the last character in the phrase.

To enter a character using the Dayi input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Dayi from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Keep characters in the input palette

Use dictionary ﬁles Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

3 Press the keys for the radicals to enter the character.

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu. The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered. Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 50.)

Press up to four keys to specify the character. The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter

characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

4 Do one of the following:

m Press Return to enter the character. m Press the Space bar to see the selection palette. m Press Enter to enter the radicals without converting them to a character.

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5 If the selection palette appears, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in

the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Dayi keys

u9t8

mdc

jl/n

Dayi radicals

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Pinyin Input Mode

Using the Pinyin input mode, you enter Chinese characters by typing Roman characters to spell the character phonetically based on Mandarin Chinese. The phonetic spelling is based on the Pinyin phonetic transcription of the character. (See the Appendix, “Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese,” on page 97 for a table of the phonetic transcription systems.)

In addition, you can type a number from 1 to 5 on the numeric keypad to enter the tone of the character. Doing so reduces the number of characters that appear in the selection palette. The table lists the numeric keypad keys and the tone each indicates.

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Numeric key Tone

1Level tone 2 Rising tone 3 Dipping tone 4Falling tone 5 Neutral tone

To enter Chinese characters using the Pinyin input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Pinyin from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the selection palette as soon as you begin pressing keys

Enter characters using Simpliﬁed Pinyin

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Keep characters in the input palette

Use dictionary ﬁles Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use Simpliﬁed Pinyin option. (See “Using Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 36 and “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu. The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered. Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 50.)

The input keys for phrases in the dictionary use the Dayi input mode. To enter a phrase from the dictionary using Pinyin, choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Pinyin. The selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

3 Press the keys for the Roman characters that spell the character phonetically using the Pinyin

transcription system. The input palette appears if the application you are using does not let you enter characters

directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

4 Press the Space bar or Return.

Press Enter to enter the Pinyin characters without converting them to a Chinese character.

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5 In the selection palette, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in the

document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Using Simplified Pinyin

Chinese character Pinyin Tone

guo

nao

The Pinyin input mode lets you use Simpliﬁed Pinyin to enter common sound combinations by pressing a single key. To use this feature, ﬁrst select the Use Simpliﬁed Pinyin option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

To enter a character, press keys to spell the character phonetically using the standard Pinyin system, but press single keys for the sound combinations shown in the table.

To enter this sound: Press this key:

ch i sh u zh a ai l an j ang h ao k en f eng g ing y

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ong s üv

Note: As you press keys for Simpliﬁed Pinyin, you see the standard Roman character for the key. However, the input mode uses the Simpliﬁed Pinyin to select the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple

Chinese character

Simplified Pinyin Tone

py 2

guo 3

Computer

dij 4

nk 3

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Zhuyin Input Mode

The Zhuyin input mode uses the Chinese phonetic symbols (bo po mo fo) to spell the character in Mandarin Chinese. Each symbol is assigned to a key.

=123456

QWER

ASDF

890-

YUIOP[ ]

HJ KL; '

ZXCVBNM, .

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To enter a Chinese character using the Zhuyin input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Zhuyin from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the selection palette as soon as you begin entering radicals

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

see suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Keep characters in the input palette

Use dictionary ﬁles Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences”

on page 48.)

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General

Preferences” on page 48.)

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences”

on page 50.)

The input keys for phrases in the dictionary use the Dayi input

mode. To enter a phrase from the dictionary using Zhuyin,

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then

enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Zhuyin. The

selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

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3 Press the keys for the Zhuyin phonetic symbols that spell the Chinese character phonetically

in Mandarin Chinese. The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter

characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

4 Do one of the following:

m Press Return to enter the character if you are sure that the ﬁrst character the input mode

will select is the one you want to enter.

m Press the Space bar to see the selection palette.

5 In the selection palette, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in the

document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Big5 Code Input Mode

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Zhuyin keys

qu/6

eji3

2uo4

sl3

Zhuyin radicals

The Big5 Code input mode allows you to enter Chinese characters by typing a 4-digit hexadecimal code for each character. To use this input mode, you must know the hexadecimal code for the character. You can use the Character table to look for characters and see their codes. (See “Using the Character Table” on page 46 later in this chapter.)

Note: Hexadecimal codes are base-16 numbers. Hexadecimal numerals include the usual numerals 0–9 and the letters a–f for the numerals 10–15.

To enter Chinese characters using the Big5 Code input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Big5 Code from the Pencil menu. 2 Type the 4-digit code for the character you want to enter.

Note: You can type numerals using the number keys on the main keyboard or the numeric keypad.

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

If you type an incorrect number before you type the fourth number, you can press the Delete key to backspace over the character.

When you type the fourth digit in the code, the Big5 Code input mode converts the code to the Chinese character.

Note: If you type four digits that are not the code for a character, the system beeps.

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3 If you are using the input palette, press Return or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Entering Roman Characters

Chinese character Pinyin Big5 Code

c4ab

guo

nao

aa47

b971

b8a3

The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides several ways for you to enter Roman characters while you are entering Chinese characters. For example, you might need to include the name of a company or person in Roman characters in a business letter.

Important The Chinese fonts include only the basic Roman characters. You cannot enter

Roman characters such as é or è unless you switch to a Roman keyboard layout.

Entering Roman Characters While Using a Chinese Character Input Mode

While you are using a Chinese character input mode—Cangjie, Jianyi, Dayi, Pinyin, Zhuyin, or Big5 Code—you can do one of the following to enter Roman characters:

m To enter one-byte Roman characters, press the Caps Lock key and type the Roman

characters. To type uppercase characters, press the Shift key while you type.

m To enter uppercase, two-byte Roman characters, hold down the Shift key while typing.

Press the Space bar or Return to enter the characters. (You cannot use this method with the Big5 Code input mode.)

Note: Be sure the Caps Lock key is not set.

m To enter a single two-byte Roman character, press the tilde (~) key, then press the letter

you want to enter. This is useful, for example, if you want to enter a number.

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About One-Byte and Two-Byte Roman Characters

The Chinese input modes allow you to enter Roman characters as one-byte characters or two-byte characters. One-byte characters are the standard Roman characters. Two-byte Roman characters consist of two bytes each, like the Chinese characters, and have the same width as the Chinese characters. This form of the Roman characters is useful for producing simple layouts and forms because they align with the Chinese characters.

Entering Roman Characters Using the Password Input Mode

The Password input mode is provided by the Traditional Chinese Input Method so that you can enter AppleShare passwords. For example, when you open the Chooser and select an AppleShare server or a workstation using Personal File Sharing, you may be required to enter a user name and password to gain access to the information on the remote computer. To have your password recognized by the AppleShare software, you may need to use the Password input mode.

Important If you try to gain access to an AppleShare server or workstation and your

password is not accepted—and you are sure you entered it correctly—choose the Password input mode and try again.

To use the Password input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Password from the Pencil menu. 2 Choose the Chooser from the Apple menu. 3 In the Chooser, select the AppleShare icon, zone (if any), and the server or workstation to

which you want to gain access, and click OK.

4 In the dialog box that appears, type your user name in the Name box and your password in

the Password box.

Important Be sure to type your user name and password correctly.

5 Click OK. 6 In the dialog box that appears, select the volumes you want access to and click OK.

Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters

Some Chinese punctuation marks are similar to those used in Roman-based languages. They are two-byte punctuation marks so that they align with the text correctly. In addition, Chinese includes a number of unique punctuation marks and symbols.

You can enter some Chinese punctuation marks by pressing the corresponding keys on the keyboard. However, if you are not sure which key to press or you want to use a special Chinese character, there are several ways you can do it:

m Choose Show Character Table from the Pencil menu. Choose “Punctuation and Symbols”

from the top pop-up menu in the palette. Double-click the character you want to enter.

m Choose Show Punctuation from the Pencil menu. Locate the punctuation mark or symbol

in the palette and click it.

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Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document

After you have entered characters, you may need to change them. In general, you use the standard methods for selecting and editing text on your Mac OS computer.

Here are some points to keep in mind: m If you have not completed entering the character, you can press the Delete key to delete

the previous key you pressed.

m If you enter a character and want to enter the same character again, choose Enter

Character Again from the Pencil menu.

m If you double-click a Chinese character that is part of a phrase or a two-byte Roman

character that is part of a word, only that character is selected, not the entire phrase or word.

m If you are using a Chinese input mode and you click in an area with Roman text, the input

method selects a Roman keyboard.

m If you are using a Roman keyboard and you click in an area with Chinese text, the Chinese

input method is selected.

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters

You can use the TrueType Font Editor to create your own special Chinese characters and save them in font ﬁles (suitcases). You can then enter these characters in your documents. You might want to create a special Chinese character for the name of a company or person. To learn how to use the TrueType Font Editor, see the “About TrueType Font Editor”ﬁle in the Chinese Utilities folder in the Apple Extras folder.

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After creating the character and saving it in a font suitcase, you must place the suitcase in the Fonts folder in the System Folder on your computer and restart your computer.

To enter the character you have created in a document, follow these steps:

1 Choose the font you created to use in your document.

How you do this depends on the application you are using. In SimpleText, you choose the font from the Font menu.

2 Choose Show User Deﬁned Characters from the Pencil menu.

The Show User Deﬁned Characters palette appears.

Choose the font you

created in the TrueType

Font Editor here.

Choose the input

mode here.

Input codes and keys appear here.

Click here to enter a code for the character.

3 Double-click the character to enter it in your document.

Note: If the character doesn’t appear in the document, be sure you have selected the correct font.

When you create a character in the TrueType Font Editor, a hexadecimal code is assigned to it. You can use the code to enter the character when you are using the Big5 Code input mode. You can also deﬁne a code for a character you have created so that you can enter the character by pressing keys when you are using the Cangjie, Jianyi, Dayi, Pinyin, or Zhuyin input mode.

To deﬁne a code for a character you have created, follow these steps:

1 Choose Show User Deﬁned Characters from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the character in the palette. 3 Choose the input mode from the pop-up menu on the left. 4 Click the button on the right. 5 In the dialog box that appears, type the code in the text box and click OK.

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Using Palettes

The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides a number of palettes that help you locate, select, and enter the characters, punctuation marks, numbers, and symbols that you want to use in your documents.

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input

Many applications let you enter characters using inline input. With inline input, you type the characters directly into the document. As you type, a line appears under the characters to indicate that they have not been entered into the document.

Some applications do not allow you to use inline input, so you must use the input palette. You may also see the input palette when you enter characters in a text box in a dialog box.

The input palette appears automatically when you start typing the keys to enter a Chinese character. If it appears, you can continue typing as though you were typing in the document window. When you are ready to enter a character into the document or dialog box, press the Space bar, Return, or Enter .

Note: The selection palette appears if more than one character matches the keys you entered.

Here are a few points to remember:

m Press the pop-up menu at the right of the input palette to choose a font for the palette. m The input palette closes each time you enter a character. If you want to keep it open all

the time, select the Keep Input Palette Open option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

m The input palette lets you specify a single character, then enter it. If you want to keep

characters in the input palette until you have completed a word or phrase consisting of two or more characters, choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu or select the option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.)

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Using the Selection Palette

You see the selection palette when the input mode you are using identiﬁes several characters that match the keys you pressed to specify a character. The selection palette displays the characters that match the keys you press so that you can enter them in your document. There are several ways you can select characters in the palette and enter them.

m Click to select and enter the character. m Press the Up or Down Arrow keys to select a different row in the palette. m Press the Left or Right Arrow keys to select adjacent characters in the palette. m Press the Space bar to select the character to the right. Press the Shift key and Space bar

to select the character to the left.

m Type the number next to the character, which enters the character in your document and

closes the selection palette. The character must be on the row with the currently selected character for a number to appear next to it.

m When the character you want is selected, press Return.

Important If you are using the Jianyi input mode, pressing Return enters the ﬁrst character

that matches the keys you pressed even if there are other characters that match. If you want to select a different character, press the Space bar to open the selection palette.

When you enter a character, the selection palette closes. You can press the Esc key or click the close box to close the palette.

Using the Operation Palette

You can use the operation palette to perform several tasks rather than using the menu commands.

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences dialog box. Click here to open the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application. Click here to see the Character table.

You can also show or hide the operation palette with the Show Operation Palette or Hide Operation Palette command in the Pencil menu.

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Choose characters or

punctuation here.

Choose a font here.

Using the Character Table

You can use the Character table to see the codes and key sequences used to enter characters, punctuation marks, and symbols. To see the table, choose Show Character Table from the Pencil menu or click the appropriate button in the operation palette.

Codes for characters appear here.

The lower part of the table shows the characters of Traditional Chinese, or the Chinese punctuation marks and symbols. When you select a character in the table, the input codes and keys for entering the character appear at the top-right of the table.

Here’s how to use the table:

1 Choose from the Category (top) pop-up menu whether you want to see characters or

punctuation marks and symbols in the table.

2 Choose the font you want to use from the Font (bottom) pop-up menu.

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3 In the lower part of the palette, click to select the character, punctuation mark, or symbol

you want to see information about. The characters are in the order of their Big5 Code hexadecimal code. When you select a character, you see this information about it in the top-right of the table:

m the Big5 Code code m the Cangjie input keys m the Dayi input keys m the Pinyin spelling for the character m the Zhuyin symbols to enter the character

4 To enter a character in your document, double-click it in the table.

Finding the Input Code for a Character

You can use the Find Input Code dialog box to look up the code for a character. You might use this dialog box to look up the keys to enter a character using the Cangjie or Dayi input mode when you already know the Pinyin spelling.

To look up the input keys for a character, follow these steps:

1 Choose the input mode for the keys to enter the character that you already know.

For example, choose Pinyin from the Pencil menu.

2 Choose Find Input Code from the Pencil menu.

The Find Input Code dialog box appears.

Find buttonCancel button

3 Press the keys for the character you want to look up.

For example, type

ping2 if you are using the Pinyin input mode.

The input palette appears as you type.

4 Press Return. 5 If the selection palette appears, select the character and press Return.

The Chinese character appears in the text box in the dialog box.

6 Click the Find button.

The codes and input keys for the Cangjie, Dayi, Pinyin, Zhuyin, and Big5 Code input modes appear below the text box.

If you want to ﬁnd the code for another character, enter it and click the Find button. The new code appears in the dialog box next to the ﬁrst code separated by a comma.

7 When you are ﬁnished, click the Cancel button to close the dialog box.

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General preferences

Selecting Preferences

You use the Preferences dialog box to select preferences for the way the input modes work. Some of the options and preferences you can select affect all the input modes, while others affect only certain input modes. To select preferences, follow these steps:

1 Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

Dictionary preferences

Input mode preferences

Click the OK button here.

Show Input Keys

Show Associated Words

Keep Input Palette Open

Zhuyin Frequency

Options

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2 Select the preferences you want to use. 3 Click the OK button when you are ﬁnished.

Selecting General Preferences

Using the general preferences, you select options for the input modes.

Store Characters

Use Simpliﬁed Pinyin

Use Dynamic Search

Here is a description of the options.

Option Description

Show Input Keys Click to select the checkbox to see the key sequences in the

selection palette. This option is the same as choosing Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Store Characters Click to select the checkbox to keep characters in the input

palette until you are ready to enter the entire word or phrase. This option is the same as choosing Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

Show Associated Words Click to select the checkbox to see in the selection palette

suggestions for subsequent characters to enter after you enter a character. This option is the same as choosing Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

Use Simpliﬁed Pinyin Click to select the checkbox to use a version of the Pinyin input

mode that uses a simpliﬁed version of the Pinyin phonetic transcription system.

Keep Input Palette Open Click to select the checkbox to keep the input palette open

after you enter a character. If this option is not selected, the input palette closes when you enter a character.

Use Dynamic Search Click to select the checkbox to have the input modes show the

selection palette with the characters you can select as you type. For example, when you press “p,” the selection palette shows all the characters that start with that sound; when you press “i,” the palette changes to show all the characters that start with “pi.” Dynamic search is useful if you are not familiar with Pinyin.

Zhuyin Frequency Options Click to select the checkbox to specify the method the Zhuyin

input mode uses to select a character when the selection palette appears. The character selected is determined by the frequency of its use. You can select one of these options:

m Static—Selects a character based on the order deﬁned by

the input mode.

m Dynamic—Selects the character you have selected most

often. The input mode saves the frequency with which you use characters.

m Most Recent—Selects the character you selected most

recently.

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Selecting Dictionary Preferences

The input modes of the Traditional Chinese Input Method can search up to four dictionary ﬁles created using the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool, in addition to the built-in dictionary characters.

Using the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application, you can create your own dictionary ﬁles. To do so, you specify phrases and the input codes to enter them. In addition, dictionary ﬁles are available that contain specialized vocabularies, such as those used in medicine and law.

Searching the dictionary ﬁles can slow down entering characters. While you can use as many as four dictionary ﬁles, you may not want to do so all the time. You can open and close dictionary ﬁles using the Preferences dialog box.

To use a dictionary ﬁle, follow these steps:

1 Copy the dictionary you want to use to the Extensions folder (in the System Folder) and

restart your computer.

2 Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box shows the dictionary in the Dictionary area. It also shows the Main Dictionary.

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Dictionaries in the Extensions folder appear here.

Click here to open the selected dictionary.

Click here to close the selected dictionary.

3 Select the dictionary you want to open and click the Open button. 4 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.

To close a dictionary ﬁle, open the Preferences dialog box, select the dictionary, and click the Close button. Then click the OK button to close the dialog box.

Entering a Phrase From a Dictionary File

To enter a phrase in a dictionary ﬁle, choose the Dayi input mode and enter the radicals you speciﬁed for the phrase.

You can also enter a phrase from a dictionary ﬁle using the Cangjie, Jianyi, Pinyin, or Zhuyin input mode. To do so, follow these steps:

1 Be sure the dictionary ﬁle is open in the Preferences dialog box. 2 Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu. 3 Press the keys speciﬁed by the input mode you are using to enter the ﬁrst character of the

phrase.

4 Press the Space bar. 5 In the selection palette, locate and enter the phrase from the dictionary that you want to

enter in your document.

Editing a Dictionary File

You use the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application to create your own dictionaries or edit existing dictionaries.

Note: The Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application is in the Extensions folder (in the System Folder).

To use the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool, follow these steps:

1 Choose Edit User Dictionary from the Pencil menu.

The Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application opens and its menu bar appears.

File menu

Number of phrases

in the dictionary

shown here.

Dictionary menu Edit menu

In addition, a new, Untitled TC Dictionary window appears.

Free space in the dictionary shown here.

Note: The information below the text box shows the number of phrases deﬁned in the dictionary, and the amount of free space available in the dictionary.

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2 To create a new dictionary, go to step 3. If you want to open an existing dictionary to add

phrases to it, choose Open from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle and open it.

3 Choose the input mode you want to use to enter characters. 4 Choose New Phrase from the Dictionary menu.

Choose the New Phrase command here.

The Edit Phrase dialog box appears.

Enter the new phrase here.

Enter the code for the phrase here.

Click OK here.

5 Enter at least two Chinese characters for the phrase you want to add to the dictionary in the

top text box.

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The text area below the text box shows the suggested Dayi input keys for the phrase.

6 Enter the suggested Dayi input code or specify your own Dayi code for the phrase in the

bottom text box. To enter the code, press the Caps Lock key and type the Roman characters for the code. For more information about the Dayi input mode, see “Entering Chinese Characters Using

the Dayi Input Mode” on page 31.

7 Click OK.

The new word or phrase appears in the window.

8 If you are creating a new dictionary, choose Save or Save As from the File menu. In the dialog

box that appears, select where you want to save the dictionary ﬁle, type a name for it, and click OK.

To use a dictionary ﬁle it must be in the Extensions folder (in the System Folder). So you may want to save the dictionary in the Extensions folder. You must restart your computer to use the dictionary.

If you are adding a phrase to an existing dictionary ﬁle, choose Save.

To change the code for a phrase or delete a phrase from the dictionary, follow these steps:

1 Choose Open from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle

and open it.

2 If the dictionary contains a large number of phrases, type the code or enter the Chinese

characters for the phrase in the text box near the top of the dictionary window.

Enter the phrase here.

Click Search here.

3 Click the Search button.

The line containing the phrase is selected.

4 Double-click the line containing the phrase to open the Edit Phrase dialog box.

To delete the selected phrase, press Delete or choose Cut or Clear from the Edit menu. In addition to allowing you to create dictionaries, add new phrases and edit them, the

Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool also lets you do the following: m If you make changes to an existing dictionary and you want to revert to the previous

version, choose “Revert to Saved” from the File menu.

Choose“Revert to Saved” here.

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m To save the phrases and their codes from a dictionary ﬁle to a text ﬁle, choose “Save as

Text File” from the File menu.

Choose“Save as Text File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, select where you want to save the text ﬁle, type a name for theﬁle, and click Save.

m To add phrases to the open dictionary ﬁle from another dictionary ﬁle, choose “Add

Phrases From a Dictionary File” from the Dictionary menu.

Choose“Add Phrases From a Dictionary File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the dictionary ﬁle and click Open.

m To add phrases to the open dictionary ﬁle from a text ﬁle, choose “Add Phrases From a

Text File” from the Dictionary menu.

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Choose“Add Phrases From a Text File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the text ﬁle and click Open.

Selecting Input Mode Preferences

The input mode preferences let you select which input modes appear in the Pencil menu. Each input mode that appears in the Pencil menu uses some of your computer’s memory.

To prevent an input mode from appearing in the Pencil menu and using memory, follow these steps:

1 Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu. 2 Click to remove the checkmark from the checkbox of the input modes you want to turn off.

Cangjie and Jianyi

input modes

Pinyin input mode

Dayi input mode Zhuyin input mode

3 Click OK. 4 Restart your computer.

Resetting Default Preferences

You can reset the options and the positions of palettes to their factory settings. To do so, choose Reset Default Preferences from the Pencil menu.

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CHAPTER

Using the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method

What Is the Simplified Chinese Input Method?

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method allows you to enter the simpliﬁed-style Chinese characters, sometimes called “GB Chinese.” This writing system is the standard writing system in China. It has more than 6,700 characters—signiﬁcantly fewer characters than Traditional Chinese.

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides four input modes for entering Chinese characters, one input mode for entering Roman characters, and the Password input mode for entering AppleShare passwords. In addition, the input method allows you to

m open palettes for looking up and entering characters, punctuation marks, and symbols m add your own phrases in Chinese and Roman characters to the dictionary m use dictionaries created with the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool, create new

dictionaries, and add your own phrases to a dictionary

m display the key combinations to enter characters in the character selection palette m display characters frequently associated with a character you enter

This chapter describes how to use each input mode and the other features of the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method.

Starting to Use the Simplified Chinese Input Method

To begin to use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method, follow the steps in this section. Before you start: You may want to open an application, such as Simpliﬁed Chinese

SimpleText, so that you can enter Chinese characters while learning to use the input method.

Simpliﬁed Chinese

Input Method

Step 1: Choose the Simplified Chinese Input Method

All input methods installed on your computer, including those of the Chinese Language Kit, appear in the Keyboard menu at the right side of the menu bar.

If the primary script on your computer is the Roman script, the Keyboard menu shows keyboard layouts at the top. The Chinese Language Kit input methods are near the bottom. If the primary script of your system software is the Chinese script, then the input methods appear at the top of the menu.

To use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method, perform this step: m Choose the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method from the Keyboard menu.

Keyboard menu

Keyboard layouts (Layouts available on your computer may be different.)

The Pencil menu appears in the menu bar.

Pencil menu

Input modes Input modes

Choose here to view

the menu in English.

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Pencil menu

Choose here to view the menu in Chinese.

You use the Pencil menu to choose the input mode and other options you want to use for the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method. Some commands are available only in certain input modes.

Important When the Pencil menu appears, it is in Chinese. If you want to see the menu

items in English, choose Show English Menu from the menu. When the Pencil menu appears, the operation palette also appears. The operation palette lets

you perform some of the same tasks that you perform by choosing commands from the Pencil menu.

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences dialog box. Click here to see the User Dictionary dialog box. Click here to see the Character table.

Step 2: Choose an Input Mode

Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences

Step 4: Enter the Character

How you enter characters depends on the input mode you are using. See the next section, “Entering and Editing Characters,” to learn how to enter characters using each of the input modes.

As you enter characters you may see one or more palettes: m The input palette appears if the application or dialog box where you are entering

characters does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document or text box. (See“Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 82.)

m The selection palette appears if the input mode matches more than one Chinese

character with the keys you press. You can select and enter a character from the palette. (See“Using the Selection Palette” on page 83.)

If you choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu, you will see the keys for entering characters in the selection palette.

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Entering and Editing Characters

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides the following input modes.

Input mode Method for entering characters

Wubi Xing Press keys for the radicals you use to write the character. Wubi Hua Press numeric keypad keys 0–6 for the strokes you use to write

the character. ABC Press Roman keys to spell the character phonetically using the

Pinyin transcription system. Quwei Press a numeric GB code for the character. Roman Press keys to enter one-byte Roman characters.

Password Press keys to enter an AppleShare password.

If your keyboard does not have a numeric keypad, you can use alphabetic keys to represent the strokes. (See “Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences” on page 89.)

If your AppleShare password is not accepted and you are sure you have typed the password correctly, choose this input mode before you enter the password again.

The following sections describe how to use each of the input modes provided with the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method.

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Xing Input Mode

The Wubi Xing input mode deﬁnes 25 radicals, which are assigned to the keys on the main keyboard. The following illustration shows the location of the radicals on the keyboard.

W E R T YQ U

S D F

Z,.

X C V B N M

H J K L

O P

;

Note: The Wubi Xing radicals are based on the Wubi Hua strokes.

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To enter characters using the Wubi Xing input mode, you press the keys of the radicals in the order of the strokes that make up the character. Therefore, you need to know how to write the Simpliﬁed Chinese characters.

To enter a character using the Wubi Xing input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Wubi Xing from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

See the keys to enter characters in the selection palette

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

Use Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool dictionary ﬁles

3 Press the keys for the radicals to enter the character.

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 87.)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the dictionary ﬁles to use. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 90.)

You can also search all dictionary ﬁles. (See “Selecting General Preferences” on page 87.)

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 82.)

If you aren’t sure which key to use for a radical, press

Note: If you don’t know the key sequence for a character, you can use the Find Input Code dialog box. See “Finding the Input Code for a Character” on page 85 later in this chapter.

4 Press the Space bar, Return, or Enter.

The Wubi Xing input mode searches for a character that matches the one you have entered. If more than one character matches, the selection palette appears. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 83.)

5 If the selection palette appears, ﬁnd the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in

the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 83.)

6 If you are using the input palette, press the Space bar, Return, or Enter to enter the character.

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For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Entering Characters Quickly

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Wubi Xing keys

AGUh

JSi

JNv

EYBh

The Wubi Xing input mode provides several ways for you to enter characters quickly. The input mode speciﬁes a Chinese character for each of the keys. You can use these single

keys to enter these frequently used characters:

Key Character Key Character Key Character

ajs

bkt

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clu

dmv

enw

fox

gpy

hqz

wild card

Some characters can be entered with two or three keys rather than the complete sequence to specify the character. Following are several examples.

To enter this character: Press these keys:

bai

shn

tjg

wxf

There are several other ways in which the input mode makes it faster to enter characters.

Description Keys Character

Alternative input keys

The input mode enters the same character for similar sequences.

Automatic correction

The input mode recognizes common errors and selects the correct character automatically.

Quick phrase entry

By typing quickly, you can enter sequences for Chinese phrases consisting of more than one character.

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x xc xca xcag

tay tgny gnty

buje

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Hua Input Mode

The Wubi Hua input mode deﬁnesﬁve strokes that you use to write Chinese characters. These strokes are assigned to the numeric keypad keys 1–5. In addition, two other keys—0 and 6—are used for special purposes.

789

456

123

Press this key if you are not sure which stroke to use when entering a character.

Press this key to indicate that there are no more strokes if a character requires fewer than ﬁve strokes to write.

To enter characters using the Wubi Hua input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Wubi Hua from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

Use alphabetic keys Select the option to use alphabetic keys in the Preferences

dialog box. (See “Selecting Preferences” on page 86.) You might

need to do this if your keyboard does not have a numeric

keypad. Keep the input palette open

while entering characters

Automatically select characters you use frequently

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General

Preferences” on page 87.)

Select the Wubi Hua F requency Order option in the Preferences

dialog box. (See “Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences” on page 89.)

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See the keys to enter characters

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu. in the selection palette

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

3 Press the keys for the strokes in the same order you use to write the character.

You can press up to ﬁve keys using the following rules:

If writing the character requires Do this:

Fewer than ﬁve strokes Press the keys for the strokes, then press the 0 key to indicate

when you are ﬁnished. Exactlyﬁve strokes Press the keys for the strokes. More than ﬁve strokes Press the keys for the ﬁrst four strokes, then the key for the

ﬁnal stroke used to write the character.

The sequence must follow the order for writing the strokes for the character: left to right, top to bottom, outside to inside.

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 82.)

As you press the keys, the Wubi Hua input mode searches for characters that match the strokes you are entering. The selection palette appears for you to select a character.

4 Use the selection palette to select and enter the character you want. (See “Using the

Selection Palette” on page 83.) For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

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Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Wubi Hua keys

12212

25114

25115

35112

Entering Chinese Characters Using the ABC Input Mode

Using the ABC input mode, you enter Chinese characters by typing Roman characters to spell the character phonetically. The phonetic spelling is based on the Pinyin phonetic transcription of the Chinese character. (See the Appendix, “Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese,” on page 97 for a table of the phonetic transcription systems.)

The ABC input mode has two variations:

m ABC Standard lets you enter Chinese characters using the standard Pinyin spelling. m ABC Double Type lets you enter Chinese characters by typing two keys for the Pinyin

spelling. (See “Using the ABC Double Type Input Mode” on page 68.)

You can also enter characters by pressing keys for strokes when using either the ABC Standard or ABC Double Type input mode. (See “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input Mode” on page 71.)

Using the ABC Standard Input Mode

ABC Standard input mode lets you enter Chinese characters using standard Pinyin or Simpliﬁed Pinyin. (See “Using Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 70.)

The ABC Standard input mode also lets you enter characters by pressing keys for strokes, either by themselves or combined with Pinyin input keys. (See “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input Mode” on page 71.)

To enter a Chinese character using the ABC Standard input mode, follow these steps:

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1 Choose ABC Standard from the Pencil menu.

Note: If the menu shows ABC Double Type, choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the ABC Standard option. (See “Selecting ABC Preferences” on page 88.)

2 Select the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

Automatically select characters you use frequently

Enter characters only by pressing keys for strokes

Keep the input palette open while entering characters

See suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

3 Press the keys for the Roman characters that phonetically spell the Chinese character you

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the ABC

Frequency option. (See “Selecting ABC Preferences” on

page 88.)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Pure

Xing option. (See “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input

Mode” on page 71 and “Selecting ABC Preferences” on

page 88.)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General

Preferences” on page 87.)

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

The selection palette appears after you enter a character

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

want to enter using Pinyin. The ABC Standard input mode provides a number of ways to abbreviate entering characters.

If you want to use abbreviated input, see “Using Abbreviated Input” on page 73. If you want to use Simpliﬁed Pinyin to enter characters, see “Using Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on

page 70. If you want to enter the character using strokes, see “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input

Mode” on page 71. The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter

characters directly into a document. (See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 82.)

4 If you want to enter a phrase consisting of two or more characters, you can continue pressing

keys for the other characters.

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5 When you ﬁnish entering the keys, press the Space bar or Return.

The ABC input mode searches in the character table for a character that matches the one you entered. In most cases more than one character will match the sequence you have entered, so the selection palette appears.

If you have entered keys for a phrase, the selection palette shows the characters for the ﬁrst character you entered.

6 Use the selection palette to select and enter the character you want. (See “Using the

Selection Palette” on page 83.) If you have entered keys for a phrase, the selection palette shows the characters that match

the next character. You can continue selecting characters until you have ﬁnished entering the phrase.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word Chinese character ABC keys (Pinyin)

Apple

Computer

Using the ABC Double Type Input Mode

ping

guo

dian

nao

The ABC Double Type input mode is used by professional typists to enter Chinese characters quickly. It uses a combination of Standard Pinyin, Simpliﬁed Pinyin, and other abbreviations for entering characters. (See “Using Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 70 and “Using Abbreviated Input” on page 73.)

Note: You must know how to use Double Type. The ABC Double Type input mode also lets you enter characters by pressing keys for strokes,

either by themselves or combined with Pinyin input keys. (See “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input Mode” on page 71.)

To use ABC Double Type, you must select the Double Type option in the Preferences dialog box to enter characters. (See “Selecting ABC Preferences” on page 88.) When you select this option, the ABC Standard command changes to ABC Double Type.

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To enter a character using ABC Double Type, you press two keys to spell the character phonetically:

m If the sound of the character starts with a consonant, press the key for the consonant

soundﬁrst, then press the key for the vowel.

m If the sound of the character starts with a vowel, press the

o key, then the key for the

vowel, followed by the key for the consonant.

As you type, the input mode converts the keys to the standard Pinyin spelling. In some cases, when you press a key several letters appear. (See “Using Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 70.)

Like the ABC Standard input mode, you can enter a single Chinese character or a phrase consisting of several Chinese characters before you select the characters you want.

When you ﬁnish entering the keys, press the Space bar or Return. The selection palette appears for you to select the character you want to enter. If you have entered keys for several characters, the selection palette remains open for you to select each character in the phrase.

For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

English word

Apple ping

Chinese character Pinyin ABC Double Type keys

guo

Computer dian

nao

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Using Simplified Pinyin

The ABC input mode lets you use Simpliﬁed Pinyin to enter common sound combinations by typing a single character. The following table shows the keys you press for the sounds.

To enter this sound: Press this key:

ch i sh u zh a ai l an j ang h ao k en f eng g ing y ong s üv

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Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input Mode

The ABC input mode lets you press number keys to enter strokes that make up the character. You can use strokes with either the ABC Standard or ABC Double Type input mode.

You can use strokes in combination with the Pinyin spelling of the character. You can also use only strokes to enter characters. To use only strokes to enter a character, select the Stroke Only Input option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting ABC Preferences” on page 88.)

Note: If a character has more than one syllable, you must use Pinyin to enter it. The ABC input mode deﬁnes eight strokes that you use to specify characters. Each stroke is

assigned to a number key.

To enter this stroke: Press this number key:

Theﬁrst six strokes are individual strokes. The strokes for 7 and 8 are actually combinations of strokes. If a character contains the strokes for 7 or 8, use that key rather than the individual strokes.

You can enter up to six strokes for a character. How you enter the stroke depends on the complexity of the character:

m For simple characters, enter the strokes in the same order you would use to write the

character.

m For complex characters, divide the character into two parts: right and left, upper and

lower, or inside and outside. You can enter three strokes for each part.

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For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer” using both Pinyin and strokes:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

ABC Stroke Input keys

p72

g87

d81

n35

Press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer” using only strokes:

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Chinese character

Pinyin

guo

ABC Stroke Input keys

721437

87134

816

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nao

35141

Using Abbreviated Input

The ABC input mode provides two ways you can abbreviate entering characters.

Description

Shift key

Press these keys

For these characters

Press the Shift key while pressing the keys for the ﬁrst sound of each character in a common phrase. The selection palette appears showing phrases that match the keys you have pressed.

Apostrophe key

zh’g

Press the key for the ﬁrst sound of a character, then press the apostrophe key (’). The selection palette appears showing characters that match the key.

Because ABC lets you press keys for several characters before converting them, you can enter a phrase.

Using Special Keys

The ABC input mode deﬁnes several keys that you can use to perform special operations.

m To enter the last character you entered again, press the Control and hyphen ( m To enter the Chinese sound represented by ü, press the m To enter the Chinese numbers 1 through 9, press the

ABC Special Character Palettes

v key.

i key and a number key.

-) keys.

The ABC input mode provides a number of palettes that let you select and enter special characters. The palettes contain punctuation, numbers, Roman characters, Greek characters, and other symbols that you may need to enter in your document.

Press these keys to see one of the ABC special character palettes:

v8,v9.

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v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6,v7,

Type the word or phrase

you want to enter here.

Type the Roman

characters to enter the

word or phrase here.

Words and phrases

you have deﬁned

appear here.

Using the User Dictionary

The ABC input mode lets you deﬁne your own input sequences for Chinese and English words and phrases that you can then enter in your document.

The ABC input mode also lets you use dictionary ﬁles created with the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool. (See “Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 90.)

To deﬁne an input sequence for a word or phrase, follow these steps:

1 Choose Edit User Dictionary from the Pencil menu.

The User Dictionary dialog box appears.

Click Add to save the phrase.

To delete an item, select it and click the Delete button.

Click here to close the dialog box.

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2 In the ﬁrst text box, type the characters for the word or phrase you want to enter:

m You can enter up to 15 Chinese characters. Enter Chinese characters as you normally do

using the ABC input mode.

m You can enter up to 30 one-byte Roman characters. To enter one-byte Roman characters,

press the Caps Lock key and type. Note: You can also use the Roman input mode.

m You can enter up to 15 two-byte Roman characters. To enter two-byte Roman characters,

choose Use Two Byte Roman Characters from the Pencil menu before you open the dialog box.

3 In the second text box, type the one-byte Roman characters you want to use to enter the

word or phrase. To do so, press the Caps Lock key, if it isn’t set already, or choose the Roman input mode and

type. You can type up to nine Roman characters.

4 Click the Add button.

You can now enter other words and phrases in the dialog box.

5 Click the Close button to close the dialog box.

To enter a word or phrase you have deﬁned in the User Dictionary, follow these steps:

1 While using the ABC input mode to enter characters in a document, type u. 2 Type the Roman character code you assigned to the word or phrase. 3 Press the Space bar, Return, or Enter.

The word or phrase appears in your document. To delete a phrase you have deﬁned from the dictionary, open the User Dictionary, select the

item, and click the Delete (middle) button.

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Entering Chinese Characters Using the Quwei Input Mode

The Quwei input mode allows you to enter Chinese characters by typing a 4-digit decimal code for each character. To use this input mode you must know the “GB Chinese” code for the characters. You can use the Character table to look for characters and see their codes. (See“Using the Character Table” on page 84 later in this chapter.)

To use the Quwei input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Quwei from the Pencil menu. 2 Using the number keys on the main keyboard or the numeric keypad, type the 4-digit “GB

Chinese” code for the character you want to enter. If you type an incorrect number before you type the fourth number, you can use the Delete

key to backspace over the character. When you type the fourth digit in the code, the Quwei input mode converts the code to the

Chinese character and inserts it in your document. A line will remain under the character until you type the next key.

Note: If you type four digits that are not the code for a character, the system beeps and the numbers you typed are deleted.

3 Type the “GB Chinese” code for the next character, or press the Space bar, Return, or Enter

key to enter the character in your document. For example, press the following keys to enter the characters for “Apple Computer”:

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English word

Apple ping

Chinese character Pinyin Quwei code

guo

Computer dian

nao

3827

2591

2171

3652

Entering Roman Characters

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides several ways for you to enter Roman characters while you are entering Chinese characters. For example, you might need to include the name of a company or person in Roman characters in a business letter.

Entering Roman Characters While Using a Chinese Character Input Mode

While you are using the Chinese character input modes—Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, ABC, or Quwei—you have several ways to enter Roman characters in your document. You can choose a Roman keyboard or the Roman input mode to enter the Roman characters, but entering Roman characters while using the Chinese input mode is faster.

To enter Roman characters, you can do one of the following: m To enter one-byte Roman characters, press the Caps Lock key and type the Roman

characters you want to enter. To type uppercase characters, hold down the Shift key while you type.

m To enter two-byte Roman characters for any of the Chinese input modes, choose Use Two

Byte Roman Characters from the Pencil menu.

Important The Chinese fonts include only the basic Roman characters. You cannot

enter Roman characters such as é or è unless you switch to a Roman keyboard.

m To enter uppercase, two-byte Roman characters while using the Wubi Xing or Wubi Hua

input modes, hold down the Shift key while typing. Note: Be sure the Caps Lock key is not set.

m To enter Roman characters while using the ABC input mode, you can use the special

character palettes provided by the input mode. See “ABC Special Character Palettes” on page 73.

About One-Byte and Two-Byte Roman Characters

The Chinese input modes allow you to enter Roman characters as one-byte characters or two-byte characters. One-byte characters are the standard Roman characters. Two-byte Roman characters consist of two bytes, like the Chinese characters, and have the same width. This form of the Roman characters is useful for producing simple layouts and forms because they align with the Chinese characters.

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Entering Roman Characters Using the Roman Input Mode

The Roman input mode allows you to enter one-byte Roman characters in your Chinese documents. To use the Roman input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Roman from the Pencil menu. 2 Type the characters you want to enter. 3 When you are ﬁnished, choose another input mode.

Important If you place the insertion mark within Roman characters, and the primary script

of your system software is the Roman script, a Roman script keyboard layout will be selected. Note: When you choose the Roman input mode, you are still using the Chinese character

fonts, which include only the basic Roman characters. Therefore, you cannot enter some Roman characters. For example, you cannot enter characters such as å,é,è,î,ø,ü, and ñ. To enter these characters, choose a Roman keyboard layout installed on your system and a Roman font.

Entering Roman Characters Using the Password Input Mode

The Password input mode is provided by the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method so that you can enter AppleShare passwords. For example, when you open the Chooser and select an AppleShare server or a workstation using Personal File Sharing, you may be required to enter a user name and password to gain access to the information on the remote computer. To have your password recognized by the AppleShare software, you may need to use the Password input mode.

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Important If you try to gain access to an AppleShare server or workstation and your

password is not accepted—and you are sure you entered it correctly—choose the Password input mode and try again.

To use the Password input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Password from the Pencil menu. 2 Choose the Chooser from the Apple (K) menu. 3 In the Chooser, select the AppleShare icon, zone (if any), and the server or workstation to

which you want to gain access, and click OK.

4 In the dialog box that appears, type your user name in the Name box and your password in

the Password dialog box.

Important Be sure to type your user name and password correctly.

5 Click OK. 6 In the dialog box that appears, select the volumes you want access to and click OK.

Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters

You can enter some Chinese punctuation marks by pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard. However, if you are not sure which key to press or you want to use a special Chinese character, there are several ways you can do it:

m Choose Show Character Table from the Pencil menu. Choose “Punctuation and Symbols”

from the top pop-up menu in the palette. Double-click the character you want to enter.

m If you are using the Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, or Quwei input mode, choose Show

Punctuation from the Pencil menu. Locate the punctuation mark or symbol in the palette and click it.

m If you are using the ABC input mode, press

v and a number (1–9) to see the special

character palettes of punctuation marks, numbers, Roman characters, Greek characters, and symbols.

Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document

After you have entered characters, you may need to change them. In general, you use the standard methods for selecting and editing text on your Mac OS computer.

Here are some points to keep in mind: m If you have not completed entering the character, you can press the Delete key to delete

the previous key you pressed. If the keys you pressed have been converted to a Chinese character but you have not pressed the Space bar, Return, or Enter to complete entering the key, the Chinese character will be replaced by the Roman keys.

m If you double-click a Chinese character that is part of a phrase or a two-byte Roman

character that is part of a word, only that character is selected, not the entire phrase or

word.

m If you are using a Chinese input mode and you click in an area with Roman text, the

input method selects a Roman keyboard.

m If you are using a Roman keyboard and you click in an area with Chinese text, the

Chinese input method is selected.

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Choose the font you

created in the TrueType

Font Editor here.

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters

After creating the font and saving it in a suitcase, you must place the suitcase in the Fonts folder in the System Folder on your computer and restart your computer.

To enter the character you have created in a document, follow these steps:

1 Choose the font you created to use in your document.

How you do this depends on the application you are using. In SimpleText, you choose the font from the Font menu.

2 Choose Show User Deﬁned Characters from the Pencil menu.

The character palette appears.

Input codes and keys appear here.

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Choose the input

mode here.

3 Double-click the character to enter it in your document.

Click here to enter a code for the character.

Note: If the character doesn’t appear in the document, be sure you have selected the correct font.

You can also enter a character you have deﬁned if you are using the Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, ABC, or Quwei input mode. To do so, follow these steps:

1 Press the tilde (~) key.

A selection palette appears showing the characters you have deﬁned.

2 Select the character in the palette and press Return to enter it.

When you create a character in the TrueType Font Editor, a decimal code is assigned to it. You can use the code to enter the character when you are using the Quwei input mode. You can also specify the keys to press to enter a character you have created when you are using the Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, and ABC input modes.

To specify the keys to press to enter a character you have created, follow these steps:

1 Choose Show User Deﬁned Characters from the Pencil menu. 2 Select the character in the palette. 3 Choose the input mode from the pop-up menu on the left. 4 Click the button on the right.

A dialog box appears for you to specify the input keys you want to use.

5 In the text box, press the keys you want to use to enter the character:

m For Wubi Hua, you can only use the alphabetic keys. m For Wubi Xing, you can only use the numbers between 1 and 5. m For ABC, you can only use the alphabetic keys.

6 Click OK.

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Using Palettes

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides a number of palettes that help you locate, select, and enter the characters, punctuation marks, numbers, and symbols that you want to use in your documents.

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input

Some applications do not allow you to use inline input, so you must use the input palette. You may also see the input palette when you enter characters in a text box in a dialog box.

Note: The selection palette appears if more than one character matches the keys you entered.

Here are a few points to remember:

m Press the pop-up menu at the right of the input palette to choose a font for the palette. m The input palette closes each time you enter a character. If you want to keep it open all

the time, select the Keep Input Palette Open option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Selecting Preferences” on page 86.)

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Using the Selection Palette

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method provides selection palettes for you to select characters, punctuation, symbols, and special characters in these cases:

m If you are using the Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, or ABC input mode, and more than one

Chinese character matches the keys you enter

m If you are using the Wubi Hua or ABC input mode, and you choose Show Associated

Words from the Pencil menu

m If you are using the Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, or Quwei input mode, and you choose Show

Punctuation from the Pencil menu

m If you are using the ABC input mode, and press

v followed by a number (1–9)

There are several ways you can select characters in the palettes and enter them into your document.

m Click the character. m Press the Up or Down Arrow keys to select a different row in the palette. m Press the Left or Right Arrow keys to select adjacent characters in the palette.

When the character you want is selected, press the Space bar, Return, or Enter to enter it into your document.

m Type the number adjacent to the character, which enters the character in your document

and closes the selection palette. The character must be on the row with the currently selected character for a number to appear next to it.

Note: When you enter a character, the selection palette closes immediately. You can also press the Esc key or click the close box to close the palette.

Using the Operation Palette

You can use the operation palette to perform several tasks rather than using the menu commands.

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences dialog box. Click here to see the Dictionary dialog box. Click here to see the Character table.

You can also show or hide the operation palette with the Show Operation Palette or Hide Operation Palette command in the Pencil menu.

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Choose to see characters

or punctuation here.

Choose a font here.

Using the Character Table

You can use the Character table to see the codes and key sequences used to enter characters, punctuation marks, and symbols. To see the palette, choose Show Character Table from the Pencil menu or click the appropriate button in the operation palette.

Codes for characters appear here.

The lower part of the table shows the characters of Simpliﬁed Chinese, or the Chinese punctuation marks and symbols. When you select a character in the table, the input codes and keys for entering the character deﬁned by different input modes appear at the top-right of the table.

Here’s how to use the table:

1 Choose from the Category (top) pop-up menu whether you want to see characters or

punctuation marks and symbols in the table.

2 Choose the font you want to use from the Font (bottom) pop-up menu.

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3 Click to select the character, punctuation mark, or symbol you want to see information

about. Note: The characters are in the order of their Quwei input code.

When you select a character, you see this information about it in the top-right of the palette:

m the Quwei input code m the Pinyin spelling for the character, which you can use with the ABC input mode m the Wubi Xing keys to enter the radicals that make up the character

Note: Some of the keys are shown as uppercase, some as lowercase. Uppercase keys indicate the radicals that are required to enter the character; lowercase keys are optional.

m the Wubi Hua keys to enter the strokes that make up the character

4 To enter a character in your document, double-click it in the table.

Finding the Input Code for a Character

You can use the Find Input Code dialog box to look up the code for a character. You might use this dialog box to look up the Wubi Xing or Wubi Hua keys to enter a character when you already know the Pinyin spelling to use with the ABC input mode.

To look up the input keys for a character, follow these steps:

1 Choose the input mode for the keys to enter the character that you already know.

For example, choose ABC Standard from the Pencil menu.

2 Choose Find Input Code from the Pencil menu.

The Find Input Code dialog box appears.

Find button

Cancel button

3 Press the keys for the character you want to look up.

For example, type

ren if you are using the ABC Standard input mode.

The input palette appears as you type.

4 Press the Space bar, Return, or Enter. 5 If the selection palette appears, select the character you want and press Return.

The Chinese character appears in the text box in the dialog box.

6 Click the Find button.

The codes and input keys for Wubi Xing, Wubi Hua, ABC Standard, and Quwei appear below the text box.

If you want to ﬁnd the code for another character, enter it and click the Find button. The new code appears in the dialog box next to the ﬁrst code, separated by a comma.

7 When you are ﬁnished, click the Cancel button to close the dialog box.

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Selecting Preferences

To select preferences using the Preferences dialog box, follow these steps:

1 Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

General preferences

Wubi Hua preferences

ABC preferences

Dictionary preferences

Click the OK button here.

2 Select the preferences you want to use.

The Preferences dialog box lets you select

m general preferences m preferences for the ABC input mode m options for the Wubi Hua input mode m dictionaries created with the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool

3 Click the OK button when you are ﬁnished.

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Show Input Keys

Keep Input

Palette Open

Selecting General Preferences

Using the general preferences, you select options that apply to several of the input modes or to all of the input modes.

Show Associated Words

Search All Dictionaries

Here is a description of the options.

Option Description

Show Input Keys Click to select the checkbox to see the key sequences in the

selection palette when using the Wubi Xing or Wubi Hua input

modes. This option is the same as selecting Show Input Keys

from the Pencil menu. Show Associated Words Click to select the checkbox to see in the selection palette

suggestions for subsequent characters to enter after you enter a

character when you are using the Wubi Hua or ABC Standard

input mode. This option is the same as selecting Show

Associated Words from the Pencil menu. Keep Input Palette Open Click to select the checkbox to keep the input palette open

after you enter a character. If this option is not selected, the

input palette closes when you enter a character. Search All Dictionaries Click to select the checkbox to use all the dictionaries listed in

the Preferences dialog box, whether or not they are open. This

option only applies to the Wubi Hua and ABC input modes.

(See“Selecting Dictionary Preferences” on page 90.)

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Selecting ABC Preferences

The ABC preferences let you select alternative input methods for the ABC input mode and determine how characters are selected in the selection palette.

ABC Standard

Input Mode

Stroke Only Input

Double Type Input Mode

Use Frequency

Here’s a description of the options.

Option Description

ABC Standard Input Mode Select this option to use the ABC Standard input mode. (See

“Using the ABC Standard Input Mode” on page 66.)

ABC Double Type Input Mode Select this option to use the ABC Double Type input mode.

(See“Using the ABC Double Type Input Mode” on page 68.)

Stroke Only Input Click to select the checkbox to enter characters using only the

stroke input keys. (See “Using Stroke Input With the ABC Input Mode” on page 71.)

Use Frequency Click to select the checkbox to have the input mode

automatically select characters in the selection palette that you have selected previously, rather than selecting the ﬁrst character that matches the Pinyin you have entered.

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Select this checkbox to

use alphabetic keys.

Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences

You can select two options for the Wubi Hua input mode.

The numbers 0 through 6

Standard Order

Frequency Order

Here’s a description of the options: m If you do not have a numeric keypad, click to select the checkbox to use alphabetic keys

to type the strokes. You can use the default keys shown in the dialog box, or enter other keys you want to use.

m Select an Order option to determine which character the input mode selects when the

selection palette appears: m Select Standard Order if you want the input mode to select the character that it

deﬁnes as the most likely character you want to enter.

m Select Frequency Order if you want the input mode to select the character that you

have selected the most often.

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Selecting Dictionary Preferences

The Wubi Hua and ABC Standard input modes can search up to four dictionary ﬁles created using the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool, in addition to the built-in dictionary characters.

Using the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool application, you can create your own dictionary ﬁles. To do so, you specify words and phrases and the input codes to enter them. In addition, dictionary ﬁles are available that contain specialized vocabularies, such as those used in medicine or law.

Note: The ABC Standard input mode also lets you enter your own words or phrase using the User Dictionary dialog box. (See “Using Abbreviated Input” on page 73.)

To use a dictionary ﬁle, follow these steps:

1 Copy the dictionary you want to use to the Extensions folder (in the System Folder) and

restart your computer.

2 Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box shows the dictionary in the Dictionary area.

Click here to close the

selected dictionary.

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Dictionaries in the Extensions folder appear here.

Click here to open the selected dictionary.

3 Select the dictionary you want to open and click the Open button. 4 Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.

To close a dictionary ﬁle, open the Preferences dialog box, select the dictionary and click the Close button. Then click the OK button to close the dialog box.

Important If you select the Search All Dictionaries option in the Preferences dialog box, the

input mode searches all the dictionaries whether or not they are open. If you do not want to use all the dictionaries available, make sure the Search All Dictionaries option is not selected. See“Selecting General Preferences” on page 87.

Editing a Dictionary File

You use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool application to create your own dictionaries or edit existing dictionaries.

To use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool, follow these steps:

1 Double-click the Simp. Chinese DictTool icon.

The application is in the Chinese Utilities folder in the Apple Extras folder on your hard disk. The Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool application opens and its menu bar appears.

File menu

Number of phrases

in the dictionary

appears here.

Dictionary menu Edit menu

In addition, a new, Untitled SC Dictionary window appears.

Free space in the dictionary shown here.

Note: The information below the text box shows the number of phrases deﬁned in the dictionary, and the amount of free space available in the dictionary.

2 To create a new dictionary, go to step 3. If you want to open an existing dictionary to add

phrases to it, choose Open from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle and open it.

3 Choose the input mode you want to use to enter characters.

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4 Choose New Phrase from the Dictionary menu.

Choose the New Phrase command here.

The Edit Phrase dialog box appears.

Enter the new phrase here.

Enter the code for the phrase here.

Click OK here.

5 Enter at least two Chinese characters for the phrase you want to add to the dictionary in the

top text box. The text area below the text box shows the suggested Wubi Xing input keys for the phrase.

6 Enter the input code for the phrase in the bottom text box. 7 Click OK.

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The new word or phrase appears in the window.

8 If you are creating a new dictionary, choose Save or Save As from the File menu. In the dialog

box that appears, select where you want to save the dictionary ﬁle, type a name for it, and click OK.

If you are adding a phrase to an existing dictionary ﬁle, choose Save.

To change the code for a phrase or delete a phrase from the dictionary, follow these steps:

1 Choose Open from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle

and open it.

2 If the dictionary contains a large number of phrases, type the code or enter the Chinese

characters for the phrase in the text box near the top of the dictionary window.

Enter the phrase here.

Click Search here.

3 Click the Search button.

The line containing the phrase is selected.

4 Double-click the line containing the phrase to open the Edit Phrase dialog box.

To delete the selected phrase, press Delete or choose Cut or Clear from the Edit menu. In addition to allowing you to create dictionaries, add new phrases and edit them, the

Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionary Tool also lets you do the following: m If you make changes to an existing dictionary and you want to revert to the previous

version, choose “Revert to Saved” from the File menu.

Choose“Revert to Saved” here.

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m To save the phrases and their codes from a dictionary ﬁle to a text ﬁle, choose “Save as

Text File” from the File menu.

Choose“Save as Text File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, select where you want to save the text ﬁle, type a name for theﬁle, and click Save.

m To add phrases to the open dictionary ﬁle from another dictionary ﬁle, choose “Add

Phrases From a Dictionary File” from the Dictionary menu.

Choose“Add Phrases From a Dictionary File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the dictionary ﬁle and click Open.

m To add phrases to the open dictionary ﬁle from a text ﬁle, choose “Add Phrases From a

Text File” from the Dictionary menu.

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Choose“Add Phrases From a Text File” here.

In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the text ﬁle and click Open.

Resetting Default Preferences

You can reset the defaults for options and the positions of palettes to their factory settings.

m To reset preferences, choose Reset Default Preferences from the Pencil menu. m To reset the positions of palettes, choose Cleanup Windows from the Pencil menu.

CHAPTER

Troubleshooting

This chapter provides information about problems you may have using the Chinese Language Kit.

I can’t read the names of files and folders.

If you have entered Chinese characters for the names of ﬁles and folders, the font selected for views is not a Chinese character font. For information about setting this font, see “Displaying Finder Names in Chinese” on page 18 in Chapter 2.

Dates and times are not displayed as Chinese dates and times.

When you install the Chinese Language Kit, the primary script doesn’t change and it determines how dates and times appear on your computer. Although some applications use the Chinese formats for dates and times that are deﬁned by the Chinese scripts, others use those deﬁned by the primary script.

If you have Mac OS 8 or later installed on your computer, you can display the day of the week in Chinese using one of the fonts provided with the Chinese Language Kit. To do so, open the Date & Time control panel and click Clock Options. In the dialog box that appears, select the“Show day of the week” checkbox and choose a Chinese font from the Font Setting popup menu.

Choosing Edit Dictionary using the Traditional Chinese Input Method does not open the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application.

The application is not located in the Extensions folder (in the System Folder). To use the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application, drag it to the System Folder and click OK in the dialog box that appears to place it in the Extensions folder. Then restart your computer.

A localized program no longer displays the menus and other items in Chinese characters.

If you change the name of a program that you have registered using the Language Register application, it is no longer registered.

If you drag the Language Kit Preferences ﬁle from the Preferences folder (in the System Folder) to the Trash, none of your localized programs will be registered. You need to replace the Language Kit Preferences ﬁle from a backup copy or register your applications again.

To learn how to register an application, see “Choosing a Language for an Application Program” on page 20 in Chapter 2.

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APPENDIX

Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese

Phonetic Transcriptions

Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

bbp

ppp’

mmm

fff

ddt

ttt’

nnn

lll

ggj

kkk’

hhh

jjch (i, ü)

Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

qchch’ (i, ü)

xshs (i, ü)

zh j ch

ch ch ch’

sh sh sh

rrr

zdzts

ctsts’

sss

aaa

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ooo

eeê

iii er er êrh

ai ai ai

ao au ao

ou ou ou

ei ei ei an an an

Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

en en ên

ang ang ang

eng eng êng

ong ung ung

ia ya ia

iao yau iao

ie ye ieh

iou you iu

ian yan iên

in in in

iang yang iang

ing ing ing

iong yung iung

uuu

ua wa ua

uo wo uo

uai wai uai

uei, ui wei uei, ui

uan wan uan

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Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

uen wen un

uang wang uang

ueng ung ung

üyuü

üe ywe üeh

üan yuan üan

ün yun ün

Wade-Giles System Exceptions

Description Pinyin Wade-Giles

When preceded by zh, ch, sh, or r i ih When preceded by z, c, or s i û When preceded by y e eh

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Apple Apple Computer Language Chinese - Language Kits User's Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual