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Contents

Preface About This Manual 7

ho Should Read This Manual? 7

here to Get Help 7

1 About the Chinese Language Kit 9

hat Is the Chinese Language Kit? 9

riting-Based Input Systems 10

ound-Based Input Systems 11

ther Features of the Chinese Language Kit 11

ther Chinese Language Kit Software 12

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

hat Are Scripts? 14

2 Installing and Setting Up the Software 15

ystem Requirements 15

Installing the Software 16

here the Files Are Located 17

sing the Keyboard Menu 18

isplaying 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

Rem

oving the Chinese Language Kit 21

3Using the Traditional Chinese Input Method 23

hat Is the Traditional Chinese Input Met h od? 23

tarting to Use the Traditional Chinese Input M ethod 23

tep 1:

Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method 24

tep 2:

Choose an Input Mode 25

tep 3:

Choose Other Options and Preferences 25

tep 4:

Enter the Character 25

Entering and Editing Characters 26

Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Cangjie Input Mode 26 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Jianyi Input Mode 29 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Dayi Input Mode 31 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Pinyin Input Mode 34 Entering Chinese Characters Using the Zhuyin Input Mode 37 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Big5 Code Input Mode 39 Entering Roman Characters 40 Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters 41

electing and Editing Characters in a Document 42

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 42

sing Palette s 44

sing the Input Palett e and Inline Input 44

sing the Selection Palette 45

sing the Operation Palette 45

sing the Character Table 46

Finding the Input Code for a Character 47

electing Preferences 48

electing General Preferences 48

electing Dictionar y Preferences 50

electing Input Mode Preferences 55

esetting Default Preferences 55

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4Using the Simplified Chinese Input Method 57

hat Is the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method? 57

tarting to Use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod 57

tep 1:

Choose the Simplifie d Chinese Input Method 58

tep 2:

Choose an Input Mode 59

tep 3:

Choose Other Options and Preferences 59

tep 4:

Enter the Character 59

Entering and Editing Characters 60

Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Wubi Xing Input Mode 60 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Wubi Hua Input Mode 64 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the ABC Input Mode 66 Entering Chinese Char acters Using the Quwei Input Mode 76 Entering Roman Characters 77 Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters 79

electing and Editing Characters in a Document 79

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 80

sing Palette s 82

sing the Input Palett e and Inline Input 82

sing the Selection Palette 83

sing the Operation Palette 83

sing the Character Table 84

Finding the Input Code for a Character 85

electing Preferences 86

electing General Preferences 87

electing ABC Preferences 88

electing Wubi Hua Preferences 89

electing Dictionar y Preferences 90

esetting Default Preferences 94

5 Troubleshooting 95

Appendix Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese 97

Phonetic Transcriptions 97

ade-Giles System Exceptions 100

Contents 5

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

It provides basic instructions for us ing the softwar e to enter Chinese characters. Some of the procedures described in this manual require you to know how to write Chinese characters, construct characters using sy stems of radicals, or spell Chinese characters phonetically using

Rom

an characters or Chinese symbols.

computer.

To use the Chine se Language Kit y ou nee d to know how to use your Mac OS 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 de termine 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 also ﬁnd recent updates to A pple software.

http://www.apple.com/

computer. If

CHAPTER

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

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

anguage Kit software adapts your Roman-based keyboard so you can enter two-byte Chinese characters on your computer. This softwar e is called an based on A pple’s WorldScript technology. (For more information about this technology, see “What Are Scripts?”

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 relate d, they are different.

computer. You can use Chinese characters for the names of ﬁles and folders in

on page 14 of this chapte r.

input method,

)

which is

Both the Traditional Chine s e and Simpliﬁed Chinese input methods provide several

odes

for entering characters. Th ere 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 gener al 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.

input

Writing-Based Input Systems

Sim

pliﬁed 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 r epres ents a word.

Chinese characters have three levels: strokes which form simple g raphic elements, called

strokes

used to draw the char acters; combinations of

radic als,

that make up the characters;

and the whole character.

Note:

The word

riting-based input modes are either stroke-based or radical-based:

radic al

is also used to designate the root of a character.

m A stroke-based input system deﬁnes the basic st rokes us ed to wr ite Chinese characters

and assigns the stroke s to keys on the Roman-based keyboard.

m A radical-based input system deﬁ nes the radicals used to write Chine s e characters and

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

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

troke 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 Piny in input mode does.

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 ex ample, the Wubi Hua input mode, which is a stroke input system, allows up to ﬁve strokes for a character, but many Chinese characters require more than ﬁve strokes.

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Because of the se 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

ound-based, or phonetic, input modes allow you to write the Chinese charact ers based on

how characters sound in Mandar in Chinese. There are two types: m Typing speciﬁc key s for Chinese phonetic symbols

(

bo po mo fo

)

To use the Chinese phonetic symbols eff ectively, 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 syste

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 ident iﬁes many characters with that spelling and you must choos e 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 f or the

tonal variation to narrow the list of alternatives. Although entering Chinese using Pinyin requir es several steps, it allows people w h o are

not ﬂuent 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 Sim

pliﬁed Chinese input methods provide other importan t 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 opt ion to show the key combinations to enter characters in the selection palette m an opt ion to display other characters frequently associated with a character yo u enter

About the Chinese Language K i t 11

Other Chinese Language Kit Software

The Chinese Language Kit includes other software to help you wor k 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 the

Note:

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

characters.

The Traditional Chinese fonts are

Taipei,

a bitmap font

Apple LiSung Light,

Apple LiGothic Medium,

BiauKai,

a brushstroke-style TrueType font

a printing-style TrueType font

a bold TrueType font

The Simpliﬁed Chinese fonts are

Beijing,

Fang Song,

Kai,

a bitmap font

ong,

a printing-style TrueType font

a handwriting-style TrueType font

ei,

a bold-st yle TrueType font 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 w ith Traditional Chinese characters mSimpliﬁed 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 prog ram does not need to be localized into Chinese.

The Language Register Program

Som

e 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

anguage Kit installed.

Note:

You will see the localized version of the application if you have a vers ion of the Mac

OS localiz ed in Chinese installed o n your computer.

The Language Regis ter provided with the Chinese Language Kit le ts you register th ese programs so that they display menus and other items in Chinese characters. To learn how to use the Language Regis ter, 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 folde rs).

Program Description

TrueType Font Editor

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

Sam

ple (SC)

and Sample (TC

Sim

pliﬁed Chinese

ictionary Tool

(

ﬁlename“Sim

icTool”)

p. Chines e

The Traditional Chinese Dictionar y Tool (ﬁlename“Trad. Chinese DicTool”)

ets you create your own TrueType Chinese characters t hat you

can use in your documents

in so that it can be used with the input method. Plug-ins can add input modes and other features to the input method.

)

Example plug-ins you can use to lear n how to write one

ets you create and edit dictionaries th at you can use with th e

Sim

pliﬁed Chinese Input Method

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.

About the Chinese Language K i t 13

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 sof tware 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 curre ncy.

For example, if y ou’re working in English, then the Roman script is your primary script. This m

eans 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 secondar y script.

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

mRoman—French, Italian, Spanish, E nglish, and German m Arabic—Arabic and Persian m Cyrillic—R mHebrew—H m Indian—D

(

Punjabi

ussian, Ukrainian, Byelor uss ian, and Bulgarian

ebrew, Yiddish

evanagari (S

anskrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali), Gujarati, and Gurmukhi

)

mJapanese m Korean m Thai

14 Chapter 1

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

CHAPTER

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 registe r an application that is localized for Chinese using the Language Regis ter progra

System Requirements

To use the Chine se Language Kit, you ne ed the following hardware and software:

Item Requirement

Computer Mac OS

AM At least 12 megabytes (MB) of actual RAM

isk space (free

ystem software Version 7.6 or later

hen you are instal ling the software, the amount of dis k space required may be greater than the amount shown here because

the Insta ller program temporarily saves fi les it is replacing .

The amount of dis k space required may be less than 40 MB depending on the vers ion of system softwar e inst a lled on your computer and the size of your hard disk.

)

–based w ith a 68030, 68040, or PowerPC™ microprocessor

sing Easy Install r equires up to 40 MB.

sing 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 Chine s e Input Method requires 42 MB m the complete Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Method r equires 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

Note:

You can install the Chinese Language Kit on a computer with a localized version of

system sof tware. If the computer has the Traditional Chinese Mac OS

CD-RO

M disc.

installed on it, you

cannot install t he Traditional Chinese Input Method or the Traditional Chin ese 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

ouble -click the Installer icon.

3 Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears.

ead t he License Agreement that appe ars, then click Agree to continue.

Chinese Langu age Kit

CD-RO

M disc in your CD-RO

M disc drive.

The Installer dialog box appears.

5 To install the basic software of the Chinese

anguage 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.

Warning If you install only the input

ethod fonts, you will not b e able to use the fonts,

and your system may not work properly.

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

6 Make sure that the

estination 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.

16 Chapter 2

hen you are ready, click Ins tall.

8 Follow the directions that appear onscreen.

9 If a

essage 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 t he Mac OS R

ead Me fold er, in the

Apple Extras folder, and in the Extensions folder and Fonts folder in the System Folder.

Note:

The ﬁles installed in the Extensions fo lder de pend on the system sof tware you are

using. The following tables do not include these ﬁles.

The Read Me ﬁle is installed in the Mac OS R

ead folder (on your hard disk.

)

The Traditional Chinese Input Method us es th ese ﬁles:

Item Location

Fonts: Taipei, Apple LiSung, Apple LiGothic1Fonts folder (in the System Folder

Traditional Chinese SimpleText progra

anguage Register progra

Key Caps progra

ard disk

Apple Extras folder (on your hard disk

)

Chinese Utilities folder

Input Method Plug-in Converter progra

Sam

ple (TC

)

You can use Custom Install to install the BiauKa i font.

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

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod uses these ﬁles:

)

Item Location

Fonts: Beijing, Kai, Song

Sim

pliﬁed Chinese SimpleText progra

anguage Register progra

Key Caps progra

Fonts folder

(

in the System Folder

ard disk

Apple E xtras folder

(

on your hard disk

)

Chinese Utilities folder

Input Method Plug-in Converter progra

Sam

ple (SC)

You can use Custom Install to install t he 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.

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder

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

Installing and Setting Up the Software 17

)

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 Keyb oard 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 sof tware 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 L

anguage Kit, a section appears at the bottom of the menu for each script yo u installed.

If the primary script of your system sof tware 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 s elect 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 nex t 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.

18 Chapter 2

hen you choose a keyb oard layout or inpu t method, the icon for the Key board 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 sof tware you are using.

If you are using system software prior to version 8.0:

1 Choose Control Panels fro

2 Choose the font you want to use fro

the Apple (K) menu and open the Views control panel.

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 cont rol panel.

If you are using system software version 8.0 or later:

1 In the Finder, choose Pre ferences fro

the Edit menu.

2 Choose the font you want to use fro

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 pri

apanese or Korean) or you use special characters (such as é)

ary script of your system sof tware is non-Roman (for example,

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 af fects

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 Me thod provides only one sorting order. The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides t h ree sorting orders. To change the sorting order for Traditional Chinese, follow these steps:

1 Choose Control Panels fro

2 Choose Traditional Chinese fro

3 Choose the behavior you want to use fro

Choose this: To sort by this:

Code-order sor t The Big5 Code code number

adical-stroke sort

troke-radical sort

4 Close the Text control panel.

the Apple (K) menu and open the Text control panel.

the Script pop-up menu.

the Behavior pop-up menu.

adicals ﬁrst, th en strokes

trokes ﬁrst, then radicals

Installing and Setting Up the Software 19

Choosing a Language for an Application Program

If you open a program localiz ed in Chinese and it does not display menus, dialog boxes, Balloon Help, and other items in Chinese characters, you should regist er th e program using

the Language Regis ter applicat ion.

To r egister a program localiz ed in Chinese, follow these steps:

pen the Language Regis ter program in the Apple Extras folder.

The Language Regis ter dialog b ox appears.

2 Choose the language to register the progra

with from the Language pop-up menu:

Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed Chinese.

3 Click

4 In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the application you want to register.

5 Click

6 Click

7 Click

egis ter.

K in the dialog box that appears.

K in the Language Regis ter dialog b ox to make Traditional Chinese or Simpliﬁed Chinese th e default language use d b y the Language Regis ter applicat ion 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 Regis ter

application. You can make copies of the Language Regis ter applicat ion with different default languages selected to re gister programs.

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 afte r you register it, it will no longer be r egistered.

20 Chapter 2

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 “Sam

ple (SC)” or the “Sam

ple

(TC)” text ﬁles in the Chinese Utilit ies folder for an example of an inpu t method p lug-in.

hen 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:

ocate and open the Input Method Plug-in Conver ter.

It is in the Chinese Utilit ies folder in the Apple Extras folder.

2 Choose

3 In the dialog box that appears, locate th e text ﬁle for the plug-in and open it.

pen from the File menu.

After you conver t 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 s ame Installer program you used to install the software.

To r emove the Chinese Language Kit software, follow these steps:

1 Insert the

ouble -click the Installer icon.

3 Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears.

4 Click Agree when the

Chinese Language Kit

icense Agreement dialog box appears.

CD-RO

M disc in the CD-RO

M disc drive.

The Installer dialog box appears.

5 Choose Custo

6 Click to select the softw are you want to re

m Rem

ove from the pop-up menu.

ove.

Warning If you re

“

Minimum Traditional Chinese and Taipei Font” option and you do not remove the other

ove the “Minimum Simpliﬁed Chinese and Beijing Font” or the

input method fonts, you will not b e able to use the fonts and your system sof tware may not work properly.

7 Make sure that the

estination 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.

hen you are ready, click Remove.

9 Follow any directions that appear o nscreen.

hen the Installer ﬁnishes, y ou may need to restart your computer.

Installing and Setting Up the Software 21

CHAPTER

sing 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 y ou to

m open palettes for looking up and entering characters, punct uation marks, and symbols m use dictionaries created with the Traditional Chinese Dictionar y Tool, create new

dictionaries, and add your own phrases to a dictionar y

m display the key combinations to enter characters in the character selection palette m display characters frequently associated with a character y ou 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 s teps in this section.

Before yo u start:

Sim

pleText, so that you can enter Chinese char acters while learning to use the input method.

You may want to open an application, such as Traditional Chinese

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 th e Keyboard menu at the right side o f 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 bott om. If the primary script of your system sof tware is the Traditional Chinese script, then the input

ethods 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

(

ayouts available on your

computer may be different.

)

The Pencil menu appears in t he 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

odes.

Important

hen the Pencil menu appears, it is in Chines e. If you want to see the menu

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

hen the Pencil menu appears, the operation palette also appears. The operation palette lets

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

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences di a log 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

enu 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 prefere nces 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

ow 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 o f the input

odes.

As you enter characters, you may se e 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 tex t box.

(See“U

sing the Input Palett e 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“U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

)

If you choos e Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu, you see the keys fo r entering characters in th e 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.

ianyi (simple Cangjie

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

Pinyin Press Roman keys to spell the char acter phonetically using the

huyin Press keys for Chinese symbols

Big5 Code Type a hexadecimal code for the character.

)

Press keys for the ﬁrst and last radicals deﬁned by the Cangjie input mode to write the character.

the character.

Pinyin t r anscription syste

(

bo po mo fo

)

to spell the

character phonetically.

Password Type an AppleShare password.

If your AppleShare password i s not accepted and you are sure you have typed the password correctly, choos e this input mode befor e you enter the password agai n.

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

anual 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 rad ical is assigned to a ke y on the main k eyboard.

Q W E R

A S D F

Z X C V B N M ,

Y U I O P

H J K L

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

1 Choose Cangjie fro

elect the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

ee the selection palette as soon

as you begin entering radicals

ee the keys to enter characters

in the selection palette

ee suggestions for subsequent

characters to enter

the Pencil menu.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

ynamic Search option. (S

on page 48.

)

ee “S

Choose Show Input Key s 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 t he one you entered.

electing General Preferen ces

”

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Kee p characters in the input

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S

Preferences” on page 48.

ee “S

electing General

)

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

palette

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

dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S on page 50.

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

”

The input keys for phrases in the dictionar y use the Dayi input m

ode. To enter a phr ase from the dictionary using Cangjie,

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; th en

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 key s deﬁne the left or t op

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. (S

page 44.

)

o one of the following :

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

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 t o enter it in

the document or input palette. (S

6 If you are using the input palette, press

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

)

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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.

sing Jianyi to enter a character, you press the key for the ﬁrst and last radicals that you

would en ter using Cangjie, unless you can specify the character with a single key.

Important This

anual explains how to use Jianyi with the Chinese Language Kit, but does not explain how t o 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 ent ered, so the selection palette appears more

frequently.

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

1 Choose

If you want to Do this:

S as you begin entering radicals

S in the selection palette

S characters to enter

ianyi from the Pencil menu.

elect the options you want to use:

ee the selection palette as soon

ee the keys to enter characters

ee suggestions for subsequent

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

ynamic Search option. (S

on page 48.

Choose Show Input Key s 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 t he one you entered.

)

ee “S

electing General Preferen ces

”

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Kee p characters in the input palette

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

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S Preferences” on page 48.

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S on page 50.

The input keys for phrases in the dictionar y use the Dayi input m

ode. To enter a phr ase from the dictionary using Jianyi,

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; th en

enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Jianyi. The selection palette shows t he phrase for you to select.

)

ee “S

electing General

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

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”

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

nless you can specify th e character with a single key, press the key for the ﬁrst and last

radical that speciﬁe s the character.

The input palette will appear if the application you ar e using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (S

page 44.

)

o one of the following :

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

m Press Return to enter the character.

The Jianyi input mode enters the character speciﬁed by the rad icals 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 t o enter it in

the document or input palette. (S

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

)

6 If you are using the input palette, press

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

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

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Jianyi keys

Jianyi radicals

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Because the Cangjie input mode require s only one or two keys to specify some characters, you may use the same keys when using Jianyi. Following are some ex amples 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 use s 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 w rite Chinese characters using these radicals and the rules deﬁn ed by the input mode for

composing Chinese characters.

Important This

anual 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.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Q W E R

A S D F

Z X C V B N M , .

8 9 0 -

Y U I O P

H J K L ;

[ ]

To enter a character, you type up to four radicals. The order in which you type the radicals to

enter a ch aracter is determined by the way in which the character is written and the

components that make up a character. Follow these rules:

sing the Traditional Chinese Input Method 31

1 Enter radicals for the co

ponent of the character that contains the most strokes. Enter

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

2 You can use a single radical for a co

ponent 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.

Som

e 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 co

ponent is completely surrounded by other strokes, enter the radicals for

the outside strokes ﬁrst, then the inner component.

5 If the inner co

ponent 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, o r botto

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 co c If the surrounding strokes are open on two sides with a radical on the upper-left or

ponent ﬁrst.

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

d If the surrounding strokes are open on two sides with a radical on the botto

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

therwise, if the inner s trokes do not f orm a radical, then enter the radicals for the

strokes from left to right and top to botto

The following table provides examples of these ﬁve rules.

-left or

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Rule

Chinese character

Cangjie key

fok0

q;;o

Dayi radicals

6 If you write a co

ponent 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 th e ﬁrs t and last radical for each

character.

m If the phrase consists of thre e or more characters, enter t he ﬁrst radical for the ﬁ rst,

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

If you want to Do this:

S in the selection palette

S characters to enter

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Kee p characters in the input palette

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

ayi from the Pencil menu.

elect the options you want to use:

ee the keys to enter characters

ee suggestions for subsequent

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

Choose Show Input Key s 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 t he one you entered.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S Preferences” on page 48.

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S on page 50.

)

ee “S

electing General

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

”

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. (S

page 44.

)

o one of the following :

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

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 t o enter it in

the document or input palette. (S

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

)

6 If you are using the input palette, press

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

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

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Pinyin Input Mode

sing the Pinyin input mode, you enter Chinese characters by typing Roman characters to

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Dayi keys

u9t8

mdc

jl/n

Dayi radicals

spell the character phonetically based on Mandarin Chinese. The phonetic spelling is based on the Pinyin phonetic transcription of the character. (S

ee 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 f rom 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. T he table lists the numeric keypad key s and the tone each indicates.

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Numeric key Tone

evel tone

ising tone

ipping tone

4 Falling tone

eutral tone

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

1 Choose Pinyin fro

elect the options you want to use:

If you want to Do this:

ee the selection palette as soon

as you begin pressing keys

Enter characters using Sim

pliﬁed Piny in

ee the keys to enter characters

in the selection palette

ee suggestions for subsequent

characters to enter

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Kee p characters in the input palette

the Pencil menu.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

ynamic Search option. (S

on page 48.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use Sim

page 36 and “S

Choose Show Input Key s 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 t he one you entered.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S Preferences” on page 48.

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

)

pliﬁed Pinyin option. (S

electing General Preferences” on page 48.

ee “S

electing General Preferen ces

ee “U

sing Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on

ee “S

electing General

)

”

)

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

3 Press the keys for the

transcription syste

dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S on page 50.

The input keys for phrases in the dictionar y use the Dayi input m

ode. To enter a phr ase from the dictionary using Pinyin,

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; th en

enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Pinyin. The selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

Rom

an characters that spell the character phonetically using the Pinyin

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

”

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not let you enter characters directly into a document. (S

4 Press the

pace bar or Return .

ee “U

sing the Input Palett e and Inline Input” on page 44.

)

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

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

document or input palette. (S

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

)

6 If you are using the input palette, press

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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 y ou 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 Pr eferences dialog box. (S

ee “S

electing 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.

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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

ü v

Note:

As you press keys for Simpliﬁed Pinyin, you see the standard Roman character for the

key. However, the input mode use s the Simpliﬁed Pinyin to select the character.

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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 use s the Chinese phonetic symbols

(

bo po mo fo

)

to spell the

character in Mandarin Chinese. Each symbol is assigned to a key.

1 2 3 4 5 6

Q W E R

A S D F

Y U I O P

8 9 0 -

H J K L ;

[ ]

Z X C V B N M , .

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

1 Choose

If you want to Do this:

S as you begin entering radicals

S in the selection palette

see suggestions for subsequent characters to enter

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Kee p characters in the input palette

huyin from the Pencil menu.

elect the options you want to use:

ee the selection palette as soon

ee the keys to enter characters

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

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

ynamic Search option. (S

on page 48.

Choose Show Input Key s 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 t he one you entered.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S Preferences” on page 48.

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S on page 50.

The input keys for phrases in the dictionar y use the Dayi input m

ode. To enter a phr ase from the dictionary using Zhuyin,

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; th en

enter the ﬁrst character in the phrase using Zhuyin. The selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

)

ee “S

electing General Preferen ces

ee “S

electing General

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

”

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3 Press the keys for the

huyin 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. (S

page 44.

)

o one of the following :

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

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 charact er you want to enter and click it to enter it in the

document or input palette. (S

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 45.

)

6 If you are using the input palette, press

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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. (S

Note:

exadecimal codes are base-16 numbers. Hexadecimal numerals include the usual

ee “U

sing the Character Table” on page 46 later in this chapter.

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 fro

2 Type t he 4-digit code for the charact er you want to enter.

Note:

You can type numerals using the number keys on the main k eyboard or the numeric

the Pencil menu.

keypad .

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (S page 44.

)

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

If you typ e an incor rect number before you type the fourth number, you can press the Delete

key to backspace over the character.

hen you type the fourth digit in the code, the Big5 Code input mode converts the code to

the Chinese character.

Note:

If you ty pe fo ur digits that are not the code for a character, the system beeps.

sing the Traditional Chinese Input Method 39

3 If you are using the input palette, press

eturn or Enter to enter the character.

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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 perso n in Roman characters in a business letter.

Important The Chinese fonts include only the basic

Rom

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

Entering Roman Characters While Using a Chinese Character Input Mode

hile you are using a Chinese character input mode—Cangjie, Jianyi, Dayi, Pinyin, Zhuyin, or

Rom

an characters. You cannot enter

Big5 Code—you can do one of the following to enter Roman characters:

m To enter one-byte Roman characters, pre ss 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-by te 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

Rom

an 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 re cognized by the AppleShare software, you may need to use the Password input mode.

Important If you try to gain access to an Apple

hare 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 fro

2 Choose the Chooser fro

3 In the Chooser, select the Apple

the Pencil menu.

the Apple menu.

hare icon, zone (if any), and the server or wor kstation to

which you want to gain access, and click OK.

4 In the dialog box that appears, type your user na

e in the Name box and your password in

the Password box.

Important Be sure to type your user na

5 Click

6 In the dialog box that appears, select the volu

Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters

Som

e Chinese punctuation marks are similar to those used in Roman-based languages. They

e and password correctly.

es you want access t o and click OK.

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

Sym

bols

”

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

ere are some points to keep in mind:

computer.

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 par t 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

ethod selects a Roman keyboard.

m If you are using a Roman keyboard and you click in an area with Chin ese 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

ight 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 Utilit ies folder in the Apple Extras folder.

42 Chapter 3

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 cr eated in a document, follow these steps:

1 Choose the font you created to use in your docu

ow you do th is depends on the application you are using. In SimpleText, you choose the

ent.

font from the Font menu.

2 Choose

how User Deﬁn ed Characters from the Pencil menu.

The Show User Deﬁn ed Characters palette appears.

Choose the font you

created in the TrueType

Font Editor here.

Choose the input

ode here.

Input codes and keys

appear here.

Click here to enter a code for the character.

ouble -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.

hen 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 t he Big5 Code input

ode. 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

how User Deﬁn ed Characters from the Pencil menu.

elect the character in the palette.

3 Choose the input

4 Click the button on the right.

5 In the dialog box that appears, type the code in the text box and click

ode from the pop-up menu on the left.

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Using Palettes

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

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input

Many applications let you enter characters using

inline i nput.

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.

Som

e applications do not allow you t o use in line 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 S

pace bar, Return , or Enter.

Note:

The selection palette appears if more than one character matches the keys you

entered.

ere 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. (S “Selecting General Preferences” on page 48.

)

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

characters in th e 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 d ialog box. (S

ee “S

electing General Preferences” on page 48.

)

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Using the Selection Palette

You see the selection palet te 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 the

m Click to select and enter the characte r. m Press the Up or Down Arrow keys to select a different row in the palette. m Press the Left or Right Ar row 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 t he 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.

mWhen the character you want is selected, press Return .

Important If you are using the

ianyi 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 differen t character, press the Space bar to open the selection palette.

hen you enter a character, the select ion 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 di a log 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 operatio n palette with the Show Operation Palette or Hide

peration Palette command in th e Pencil menu.

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Choose characters or

punctuation here.

Choose a font h ere.

Using the Character Table

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

Codes for c haracters 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.

ere’s how to use the table:

1 Choose fro

the Cat egory (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 fro

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

the Font (bottom)

pop-up menu.

you want to see information about.

The characters are in the o rder of their Big5 Code hexadecimal code.

hen 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 ke ys 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 docu

ent, do uble-click it in the table.

ark, or symbol

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Finding the Input Code for a Character

You can use the Find Input Code d ialog box to look up the code for a character. You might use this dialog box to look up th e keys to enter a character using the Cangjie or Dayi input m

ode when you already know the Pinyin spelling.

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

1 Choose the input

ode for the keys to enter the character that you already know.

For example, choose Pinyin from the Pencil menu.

2 Choose Find Input Code fro

the Pencil menu.

The Find Input Code dialog box appears.

Find buttonCanc el button

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

For example, type

ping2 if you are using the Pinyin input

The input palette appears as you type.

4 Press

5 If the selection palette appears, select the character and press

eturn .

ode.

eturn .

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.

hen you are ﬁnished, click the Cance l button to close the dialog box.

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Selecting Preferences

You use the Preferences dialog box to select preferences for the way the input modes work. Som

e 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:

eneral preferences

1 Choose Preferences fro

the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

elect the preferences you want to use.

3 Click the

Selecting General Preferences

K butt on when you are ﬁ nished.

ictionary preferences

Input mode preferences

Click the OK button here.

how Input Keys

how Associ ated Words

Keep Input Palette Open

huyin Frequency

ptions

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

tore Characters

se Simpliﬁed Pinyin

se Dynamic Search

ere is a description of the options.

Option Description

how Input Key s Click to s elect the checkbox t o see the key sequences in the

selection palette. This option is the same as choosing Show

Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

tore Characters Click to s elect the checkbox to keep char acters 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.

how Associated Words Click to select the checkbox to s ee in the s election palette

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

ords from the Pencil menu.

se Simpliﬁed Piny in Click to s elect the checkbox to use a version of the Pinyin input

ode that uses a simpliﬁed version of the Pinyin phonetic

transcription syste

Kee p Input Palette Open Click to s elect the checkbox to keep the input palette open

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

se Dynamic Search Click to se lect th e 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 s election 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.

huyin Frequency Options Click to s elect the checkbox t o specify the method the Zhuyin

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

mStatic—S

elects a characte r based on the order deﬁned by

the input mode.

mDynamic—S

elects the character you have selected most

often. The input mode saves the frequency with which you

use characters.

m Most Recent—S

elects 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 Dictionar y Tool, in addition to the built-in dictionar y characters.

sing the Traditional Chinese Dictionar y Tool application, you can create your own dictionar y ﬁles. To do so, you specify phrases and the input codes to enter them. In addition, dictionar y ﬁles are available that contain specialized vocabularies, such as those used in m

edicine and law.

earching 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

dictionar y 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 fro

the Pencil menu.

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

ictionaries in the Extensions

folder appear here.

Click here to open the selected di c tionary.

Click here to clos e the selected dictionary.

elect the dictionar y you want to open and click the Open button.

4 Click

K to close the Preferences dialog box.

To close a dictionar y ﬁle, open the Preferences dialog box, select the dictionary, and click the Close button. Then click the OK butt on to close the d ialog box.

Entering a Phrase From a Dictionary File

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

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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 dictionar y ﬁle is open in the Preferences d ialog box.

2 Choose

3 Press the keys speciﬁed by the input

how Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

ode you are using to enter the ﬁrst character of the

phrase.

4 Press the

5 In the selection palette, locate and enter the phrase fro

pace bar.

enter in your document.

Editing a Dictionary File

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

Note:

The Traditional Chinese Dictionar y Tool application is in the Extensions folder (in the

ystem Folder

)

To use the Traditional Chinese Dictionar y Tool, follow these steps:

1 Choose Edit

ser Dictionar y from the Pencil menu.

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

Fil e menu

ictionary menu

Edit menu

the dictionar y that you want to

umber of phrases

in the dic tionary

shown here.

In addition, a new, Untitled TC Dictionar y window appears.

Free spa ce in the

dic tionary shown here.

Note:

The information below the text box shows the number of phrases deﬁned in the

dictionar y, and the amount of fre e space available in the dictionary.

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2 To create a new dictionar y, 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 dictionar y ﬁle and open it.

3 Choose the input

4 Choose

ew Phrase from the Dictionar y menu.

ode you want to use to enter ch aracters.

Choose the New Phras e command here.

The Edit Phrase dialog box appears.

Enter the new phrase here.

Enter the code for the ph rase here.

Click OK here.

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

top text box.

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

6 Enter the sugge sted

ayi input code or specify your own Dayi code for the phrase in the

bottom text box.

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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

The new word or phrase appears in the window.

8 If you are creating a new dictionar y, choose

ave 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 fo lder (in the System Folder). So you may want to save th e 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 dictionar y, follow these steps:

Enter the phrase her e.

1 Choose

pen from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle

and open it.

2 If the dictionary contains a large nu

ber of phrases, typ e the code or enter the Chinese

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

Click Search here.

3 Click the

earch b utton.

The line containing the phrase is s elected.

ouble -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 Dictionar y 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 “R

evert to Saved” from the File menu.

Choose

“

evert to Saved” here.

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

ave as

Text File” from the File menu.

Choose

“

ave as Text File” here.

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

m To add phrases to th e open dictionary ﬁle f rom another dictionary ﬁle, choose “Add

Phrases From a Dictionar y File” from the Dictionar y 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 d ictionar y ﬁ le from a text ﬁle, choose “Add Phrases From a

Text File” from the Dictionar y menu.

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Choose“Add Phrases From a Text Fi le” 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 yo ur computer ’s memory.

To prevent an input mode from appearing in the Pen cil menu and using memory, follow

these steps:

Cangjie and Jianyi

input modes

Pinyin input mode

1 Choose Preferences fro

2 Click to re

3 Click

estart your computer.

ove the checkmark from the checkbox of the input modes you want to turn off.

the Pencil menu.

ayi input mode

huyin input mode

Resetting Default Preferences

You can res et the options and the positions of palettes to their factor y settings. To do so, choose Reset Default Preferences from the Pencil menu.

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CHAPTER

sing the Simpliﬁed Chinese

Input Method

What Is the Simplified Chinese Input Method?

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod allows you to enter the simpliﬁed-style Chinese characters, sometimes called “G

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 th e Password input mode for

entering AppleShare passwords. In addition, the input method allows you to

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

dictionaries, and add your own phrases to a dictionar y

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

B Chinese.” This writing system is the standard writing

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 Me thod, follow the steps in this section.

Before yo u start:

Sim

pleText, so that you can enter Chinese char acters while learning to use the input method.

You may want to open an application, such as Simpliﬁed Chinese

impliﬁed 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 th e Keyboard menu at the right side o f 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 bott om. If the primary script of your system sof tware 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 Me thod from the Keyboard menu.

Keyboard menu

Keyboard layouts

(

ayouts available on your

computer may be different.

)

The Pencil menu appears in t he 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 yo u want to use for

the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod. Some commands are available only in ce rtain input

odes.

Important

hen the Pencil menu appears, it is in Chines e. If you want to see the menu

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

hen the Pencil menu appears, the operation palette also appears. The operation palette lets

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

Choose an input mode here. Click here to see the Preferences di a log box. Click here to see the User Dictionary dialog box. 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

enu 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 prefere nces 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

ow 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 o f the input

odes.

As you enter characters you may se e 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 tex t box.

(See“U

sing the Input Palett e 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“U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 83.

)

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

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Entering and Editing Characters

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod provides the following input modes.

Input mode Method for entering characters

ubi Xing Press keys for the radicals you use to write the char acter.

ubi Hua Press numeric keypad keys 0–6 for the strokes you use to write

the character.

ABC Press Roman keys to spell the char acter phonetically using the

Pinyin t r anscription syste

uwei Press a numeric GB code for the character.

Rom

an Press keys to enter one-byte Roman characters.

Password Press keys to enter an AppleShare password.

If your keyboard does not have a numeric k eypad, you can use alphabetic k eys to represent the strok es. (S

ua Preferences” on page 89.

If your AppleShare password i s not accepted and you are sure you have typed the password correctly, choos e this input mode

befor e you enter the password agai n.

)

ee “S

elec ting Wubi

The following sections describe how to use each of the input modes provided with the Sim

pliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod.

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 locat ion of the radicals on the keyboard.

W E R T YQ U

S D F

Z , .

X C V B N M

Note:

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

H J K L

O P

;

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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

If you want to Do this:

S in the selection palette

ubi Xing from the Pencil menu.

elect the options you want to use:

ee the keys to enter characters

Choose Show Input Key s from the Pencil menu.

Kee p the input palette open

while entering characters

se Simpliﬁed Chinese

ictionary To ol dictionar y ﬁles

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

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S Preferences” on page 87.

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the dictionar y ﬁles to use. (S

on page 90. Yo u can also search all dict ionary ﬁles. (S

Preferences” on page 87.

)

ee “S

electing General

)

ee “S

electing Dictionary Preferences

ee “S

electing General

)

The input palette appears if the application you are using does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document. (S 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

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

dialog box. See “Finding the Input Code for a Character” on page 85 later in this chapter.

4 Press the

pace 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 s election palette appears. (S Palette” on page 83.

)

ee “U

sing the Selection

”

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

the document or input palette. (S

6 If you are using the input palette, press the

ee “U

sing the Selection Palette” on page 83.

pace bar, Return , or Enter to ent er the character.

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)

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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

a j s

b k t

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c l u

d m v

e n w

f o x

g p y

h q z

wild card

Som

e charact ers 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 ch aracters.

Description Keys Character

Alternative input keys

The input mode enters the same charact er for similar sequences.

Automatic correction

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

Quick phrase entry

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

xca

xcag

tay

tgny

gnty

buje

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Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Hua Input Mode

The Wubi Hua input mode deﬁnes ﬁve 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.

7 8 9

4 5 6

1 2 3

Press this k ey if you are not sure whic h stroke

to use when entering a character.

Press this k ey to indic ate that there are no more strokes

if a charac ter requires fewer than ﬁve strokes to wri te.

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

1 Choose

If you want to Do this:

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

Automatically select characters

you use frequently

ubi Hua from the Pencil menu.

elect the options you want to use:

se alphabetic keys

elect the option to use alphabetic keys in the Preferences

dialog box. (S

ee “S

electing Preferences” on page 86.) You might

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

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S

Preferences” on page 87.

elect the Wubi Hua Frequency Order option in the Prefer ences

dialog box. (S

ee “S

)

electing Wubi Hua Preferences” on page 89.

ee “S

electing General

)

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ee the keys to enter characters

Choose Show Input Key s from the Pencil menu.

in the selection palette

ee 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 t he one you entered.

3 Press the keys for the strokes in the s a

e 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 t he strokes, then press the 0 key to indicate

when you are ﬁnished.

Exactly ﬁve strokes Press the keys for t he strokes.

More than ﬁve strokes Press the keys for t he ﬁrs t four strokes, then the key for the

ﬁnal stroke used to write the character.

The sequence must follow the order for writing the strok es 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. (S page 82.

)

ee “U

sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

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.

se the selection palet te to select and enter the character you want. (S

election Palette” on page 83.

)

ee “U

sing the

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

English word

Apple ping

Computer dian

Chinese character Pinyin

guo

nao

Wubi Hua keys

12212

25114

25115

35112

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Entering Chinese Characters Using the ABC Input Mode

sing the ABC input mode, you enter Chinese characters by typing Roman characters to spe ll the character phonetically. The phonetic spelling is based on the Pinyin phonetic transcription of the Chinese character. (S for Chinese,” on page 97 for a table of the phonetic transcription systems.

ee the Appendix, “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. (S

ee “U

sing the ABC Double Type Input Mode” on page 68.

)

You can also enter characters by pressing keys for strokes when using either the ABC S

tandard or ABC Double Type input mode. (S

Mode” on page 71.

Using the ABC Standard Input Mode

)

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sing Stroke Input With the ABC Input

ABC Standard input mode lets you enter Chinese characters using standard Pinyin or

Sim

pliﬁed Pinyin. (S

ee “U

sing 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. (S ABC Input Mode” on page 71.

)

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sing Stroke Input With the

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

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1 Choose ABC

Note:

tandard from the Pencil menu.

If the menu shows ABC Double Type, choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and

select the ABC Standard option. (S

ee “S

electing ABC Preferences” on page 88.

)

elect 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

Kee p the input palette open while entering characters

ee suggestions for subsequent

characters to enter

3 Press the keys for the

Rom

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the ABC Frequency option. (S page 88.

)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Pure Xing option. (S

Mode” on page 71 and “S page 88.

)

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep Input Palette Open option. (S 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 t he one you entered.

ee “S

electing ABC Preferences” on

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sing Stroke Input With the ABC Input

electing ABC Preferences” on

ee “S

electing General

)

an characters that phonetically spell the Chinese character you

want to enter using Pinyin.

The ABC Standard input mode provides a number of ways t o abbreviate entering characters . If you want to use abbreviated input, see “U

If you want to use Simpliﬁed Pinyin to enter characters, see “U

sing Abbreviate d Input” on page 73.

sing Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on

page 70.

If you want to enter the character using strokes, see “U

sing 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. (S page 82.

4 If you want to enter a phrase consisting of two or

)

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sing the Input Palette and Inline Input” on

ore characters, you can cont inue press ing

keys for the other char acters.

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hen you ﬁnish enter ing 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 yo u 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.

se the selection palet te to select and enter the character you want. (S S

election Palette” on page 83.

)

ee “U

sing the

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 ent er 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. (S Input” on page 73.

Note:

You must know how to use Double Type.

ee “U

sing Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 70 and “U

sing Abbreviated

)

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. (S ABC Input Mode” on page 71.

)

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sing Stroke Input With the

To use ABC Double Type, you must select the Double Type option in the Preferences dialog

box to enter characters. (S

ee “S

electing 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

sound ﬁrst, 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. (S

ike the ABC Standard input mode, you can enter a single Chinese character or a phrase

ee “U

sing Simpliﬁed Pinyin” on page 70.

)

consisting of several Chin ese characters before you select the characters you want.

hen you ﬁnish enter ing 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 p alette remains open for you to select each character in the phrase.

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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

ü v

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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

nly Input option in the Preferences dialog box. (S

page 88.

Note:

)

If a character has more than one syllable, you must use Pinyin to enter it.

ee “S

electing ABC Preferences” on

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:

The ﬁrst 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:

For simple characters,

enter the strokes in the same order you would use to write the

character.

For complex characters,

divide the character into two parts: right and le ft, upper and

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

sing the Simplified Chinese Input Method 71

For example, press the following keys to ent er 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 characte rs.

Description

Shift key

Press these keys

For these characters

Press the Shift key while pressing the keys for the ﬁrs t sound of each char acter in a common phrase. The selection palette appears showing phrases that match

the keys you have pre ss ed.

Apostrophe key

zh’g

Press the key for the ﬁrst sound of a character, then press the apostrophe key

(’)

. The selection palette

appears showing char acters 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 represen ted 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 nu

ber key.

(

)

keys.

The ABC input mode provides a number of palet tes 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,

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 dictionar y ﬁles created with the Simpliﬁed Chinese

ictionar y Tool. (S

ee “S

electing Dictionar y Preferences” on page 90.)

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

Typ e the word or phrase

you want to enter here.

Typ e the Roman

characters to enter the

word or phrase here.

ords and phrases

you have deﬁned

appear here.

1 Choose Edit

ser Dictionar y from the Pencil menu.

The User Dictionar y dialog box appears.

Click Add to save the phrase.

To delete an item, select i t and clic k the Delete button.

Click here to clos e the di alog box.

2 In the ﬁrst text box, type the char acters for the wo rd 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 Tw o Byte Roman Characters from the Pencil menu before you open the dialog

box.

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3 In the second text box, type the one-byte

Rom

an characters you want to use to enter the

word or phrase.

To do so, press the Caps Lock key, if it isn’t se t already, or choos e 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 Dictionar y, follow these steps:

hile using the ABC input mode to enter characters in a document, type u.

2 Type t he

3 Press the

Rom

an character code you assigned to the word or phrase .

pace 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 Dictionar y, select the

item, and click the Delete (m

iddle) butt on.

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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 “G

B Chinese” code for

the characters. You can use the Character table to look for characters and see their codes.

(See“U

sing the Character Table” on page 84 later in this chapter.

)

To use the Quwei input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose

uwei from the Pencil menu.

sing the number keys on the main k eyboard or the numeric keypad, type the 4-digit “G

Chinese” code for the character you want to enter.

If you type an incorrect number before you type t he fourth number, you can use the Delete

key to backspace over the character.

hen 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 ty pe fo ur digits that are not the code for a character, the system beeps and the

numbers you typed are deleted.

3 Type t he

“GB Chinese” code for the nex t character, or press the Space bar, Return , or Enter

key to enter the character in your document.

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

English word

Apple ping

Chinese character Pinyin Quwei code

3827

guo

2591

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Computer dian

nao

2171

3652

Entering Roman Characters

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

Entering Roman Characters While Using a Chinese Character Input Mode

hile you are using the Chin ese character input modes—W

uwei—you have several ways to enter Roman characters in your document. You can choose

ubi Xing, Wubi Hua, ABC, or

a Roman keyboard or the Roman input mode to enter the Roman characters, but entering Rom

an 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, pre ss 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

Rom

an characters. You cannot

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

m To enter uppercase, two-by te 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

Rom

an characters consist of two bytes, like the Chinese characters, and have the same width.

This form of t he 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 Chin ese documents. To use the Roman input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose

2 Type t he characters you want to enter.

Important If you place the insertion

Rom

an from the Pencil menu.

hen you are ﬁnished, choose another input mode.

ark within Roman characters, and the primary script

of your system sof tware is the Roman script, a Roman script ke yboard layout will be selected.

Note:

hen 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

Rom

an characters. For example, you cannot enter characters such as

å, é, è, î, ø, ü,

enter these characters, choose a Roman keyboard layout installed on your system and a Rom

an font.

Entering Roman Characters Using the Password Input Mode

The Password input mode is provided by the Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod 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 re cognized by the AppleShare software, you may need to use the Password input mode.

Important If you try to gain access to an Apple

hare server or workstation and your

password is not accepted—and you are sure you entered it corr ectly—choose the Password

input mode and try again.

and ñ. To

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To use the Password input mode, follow these steps:

1 Choose Password fro

2 Choose the Chooser fro

3 In the Chooser, select the Apple

the Pencil menu.

the Apple (K) menu.

hare icon, zone (if any), and the server or wor kstation to

which you want to gain access, and click OK.

4 In the dialog box that appears, type your user na

the Password dialog box.

Important Be sure to type your user na

5 Click

6 In the dialog box that appears, select the volu

e and password correctly.

e in the Name box and your password in

es you want access t o and click OK.

Entering Punctuation, Symbols, Numbers, and Special Characters

Som

e 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 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

Sym

bols

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 nu

ber (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

ere are some points to keep in mind:

If you have not completed entering the charac ter,

you can press the Delete key to delete

computer.

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.

If you double-click a Chinese chara c ter 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.

If you are using a Chinese in p ut mode and you click in an area with Roman text,

the

input method selects a Roman keyboard.

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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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

ight 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 Utilit ies folder in the Apple Extras folder.

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 cr eated in a document, follow these steps:

Choose the font you

created in the TrueType

Font Editor here.

1 Choose the font you created to use in your docu

ow you do th is depends on the application you are using. In SimpleText, you choose the

ent.

font from the Font menu.

2 Choose

how User Deﬁn ed Characters from the Pencil menu.

The character palette appears.

Input codes and keys appear here.

Choose the input

ode here.

ouble -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

Click here to enter a code for the character.

correct font.

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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.

elect the character in the palette and press Return to enter it.

hen you create a character in the Tr ueType Font Editor, a decimal code is assigned to it. You can use the code to enter the character w hen 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

ubi Xing, Wubi Hua, and ABC input modes.

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

1 Choose

3 Choose the input

4 Click the button on the right.

how User Deﬁn ed Characters from the Pencil menu.

elect the character in the palette.

ode from the pop-up menu on the left.

A dialog box app ears 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

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Using Palettes

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Input Me thod 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 do cuments.

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input

Many applications let you enter characters using

inline i nput.

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.

Som

e applications do not allow you t o use in line 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.

pace bar, Return , or Enter.

Note:

The selection palette appears if more than one character matches the keys you

entered.

ere 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. (S “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

ords 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 nu

ber (1–9

)

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

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

hen the ch aracter you want is selected, press the Space bar, Return , or Enter to ent er it

into your document.

m Type the number ad jacent to th e 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:

hen you enter a character, the selection palette closes immediately. Yo u 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 di a log box. Click here to see the Dictionary dialog box. Click here to see the Character table.

You can also show or hide the operatio n palette with the Show Operation Palette or Hide

peration Palette command in th e Pencil menu.

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Choose to s ee characters

or punctuation here.

Choose a font h ere.

Using the Character Table

You can use the Character table to see the codes and key sequen ces 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 c haracters 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.

ere’s how to use the table:

1 Choose fro

the Cat egory (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 fro

3 Click to select the character, punctuation

the Font (bottom)

ark, or symbol you want to see information

pop-up menu.

about.

Note:

The characters are in the o rder of their Quwei input code.

hen 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:

Som

e 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 docu

ent, do uble-click it in the table.

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Finding the Input Code for a Character

You can use the Find Input Code d ialog box to look up the code for a character. You might use this dialog box to look up the Wubi Xing or Wubi Hua ke ys 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

ode 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 fro

the Pencil menu.

The Find Input Code dialog box appears.

Find button

Canc el button

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

For example, type

ren if you are using the ABC

tandard input mode.

The input palette appears as you type.

4 Press the

pace bar, Return , or Enter.

5 If the selection palette appears, select the character you want and press

eturn .

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, separ ated by a comma.

hen you are ﬁnished, click the Cance l button to close the dialog box.

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Selecting Preferences

You use the Preferences dialog box to select preferences for the way the input modes work. Som

e of the options and preferences you can select affect all the input modes, while others

affect only certain input modes.

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

eneral preferences

ubi Hua preferences

1 Choose Preferences fro

the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box appears.

elect 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 Dictionar y Tool

ABC preferenc es

ictionary preferences

Click the OK button here.

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3 Click the

K butt on when you are ﬁ nished.

how Input Keys

Keep Inpu t

Palette Open

Selecting General Preferences

sing the general preferences, you select options that apply to s everal of the input modes or

to all of the input modes.

how Associ ated Words

earch All Dictionaries

ere is a description of the options.

Option Description

how Input Key s Click to s elect the checkbox t o see the key sequences in the

selection palette when using the Wubi Xing or Wubi Hua input

odes. This option is the same as selecting Show Input Key s

from the Pencil menu.

how Associated Words Click to select the checkbox to s ee in the s election 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.

Kee p Input Palette Open Click to s elect the checkbox to keep the input palette open

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

earch All Dictionaries Click to s elect the checkbox t o use all the dictionaries listed in

the Prefer ences dialo g box, whethe r or not they ar e open. This optio n only applies to the Wubi Hua and ABC input modes.

(See“S

electing Dictionary Preferences” on page 90.

sing the Simplified Chinese Input Method 87

)

Selecting ABC Preferences

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

ABC Standard

Input Mode

troke Only Input

ouble Type Input Mode

se Frequency

ere’s a description of the options.

Option Description

ABC Standard Input Mode

ABC Double Type Input Mode

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

se Frequency Click to select the ch eckbox to have the input mode

elect this option to use the ABC Standard input mode. (S

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

elect this option to use the ABC Double Type input mode.

(See“U

sing the ABC Double Type Input Mode” on page 68.

stroke input keys. (S

Mode” on page 71.

ee “U

sing Stroke Input With the ABC Input

)

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

)

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elect this checkbox to

use alphabetic keys.

tandard Order

Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences

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

The numbers 0 through 6

Frequency Order

ere’s a description of the options:

m If you do not have a numeric keypad, click to select the checkbo x to use alphabetic keys

to type the st rokes . Yo u can use the default keys shown in the dialog box, or enter oth er keys you want to use.

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

selection palette appears:

mSelect Standard Order if you want the input mode to select the character t hat it

deﬁnes as the most likely ch aracter you want to enter.

mSelect Frequency Order if you want the input mode to select the character t hat you

have selected the most often.

sing the Simplified Chinese Input Method 89

Selecting Dictionary Preferences

The Wubi Hua and ABC Standard input modes can sear ch up to four dictionar y ﬁles created using the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y To ol, in addit ion to the built-in dictionar y characters.

sing the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y Tool application, you can create your own dictio nary

ﬁles. To do so, you specify words and phrases and the input codes to enter them. In addit ion,

dictionar y ﬁles are available that contain specialized vocabularies, such as those used in m

edicine or law.

Note:

The ABC Standard input mode also lets you enter your own words or phrase using

the User Dictionar y dialog box. (S

earching the dictionary ﬁles can slow down entering characters. While you can use as many

ee “U

sing Abbreviated Input” on page 73.

)

as four dictionary ﬁles, you may not want to do so all the time. You can open and close dictionar y ﬁles using the Preferences dialog box.

To use a dictionary ﬁle, follow these steps:

Click here to clos e the

selected dictionary.

1 Copy the dictionary you want to use to the Extensions folder

(

in the System Folder) and

restart your computer.

2 Choose Preferences fro

the Pencil menu.

The Preferences dialog box shows the dictionary in the Dictionar y area.

ictionaries in the Extensions

folder appear here.

Click here to open the selected di c tionary.

elect the dictionar y you want to open and click the Open button.

4 Click

K 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 butt on to close the d ialog box.

Important If you select the

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

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Editing a Dictionary File

You use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y Tool application to create your own dictionaries or

edit existing dictionaries.

To use the Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y Tool, follow these steps:

ouble -click the Simp. Chinese DictTool icon.

The application is in the Chinese Utilit ies folder in the Apple Extras folder on your hard dis k.

The Simpliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y Tool application opens and its menu bar appears.

Fil e menu

umber of phrases

in the dic tionary

appears here.

ictionary menu

Edit menu

In addition, a new, Untitled SC Dictionar y window appears.

Free spa ce in the

dic tionary shown here.

Note:

The information below the text box shows the number of phrases deﬁned in the

dictionar y, and the amount of fre e space available in the dictionary.

2 To create a new dictionar y, 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 dictionar y ﬁle and open it.

3 Choose the input

ode you want to use to enter characters.

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4 Choose

ew Phrase from the Dictionar y menu.

Choose the New Phras e 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 dictionar y in the

top text box.

The text area below the text box shows the suggested Wubi Xing input keys for the phr ase.

6 Enter the input code for the phrase in the botto

7 Click

text box.

The new word or phrase appears in the window.

8 If you are creating a new dictionar y, choose

ave 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.

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

Enter the phrase her e.

1 Choose

pen from the File menu. In the dialog box that appears, locate the dictionary ﬁle

and open it.

2 If the dictionary contains a large nu

ber of phrases, typ e the code or enter the Chinese

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

Click Search here.

3 Click the

earch b utton.

The line containing the phrase is s elected.

ouble -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

Sim

pliﬁed Chinese Dictionar y 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 “R

evert to Saved” from the File menu.

Choose

“

evert to Saved” here.

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

ave as

Text File” from the File menu.

Choose

“

ave as Text File” here.

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

m To add phrases to th e open dictionary ﬁle f rom another dictionary ﬁle, choose “Add

Phrases From a Dictionar y File” from the Dictionar y 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 d ictionar y ﬁ le from a text ﬁle, choose “Add Phrases From a

Text File” from the Dictionar y menu.

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Choose“Add Phrases From a Text Fi le” here.

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

Resetting Default Preferences

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

m To r eset preferences, choose Reset Default Preferences from the Pencil menu. m To r eset the positions of palet tes, choose Cle anup Windows from the Pencil menu.

CHAPTER

Troubleshooting

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

anguage 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.

hen 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 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 app ears, s elect the“S

how day of the week” checkbox and choose a Chinese font from the Font Setting pop-

up 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 Dictionar y Tool application, drag it to the System Folder and click OK in

the dialog box that appears to place it in the Extensions fold er. Then restart your computer.

8 or later installed on your computer, you can display the day of the week

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 regis tered.

If you drag the Language Kit Preferences ﬁle from the Preferences folder (in the System

Folder) to the Trash, none of yo ur localized programs will be registered. You need to replace the Language Kit Preferences ﬁle from a backup copy or register your applications again.

To lear n 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

b b p

p p p’

m m m

f f f

d d t

t t t’

n n n

l l l

g g j

k k k’

h h h

j j ch (i, ü

)

Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

q ch ch’ (i, ü

x s hs (i, ü

zh j ch

ch ch ch’

sh sh sh

r r r

z dz ts

c ts ts’

s s s

a a a

o o o

)

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e e ê

i i i

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

u u u

ua wa ua

uo wo uo

uai wai uai

uei, ui wei uei, ui

uan wan uan

Phoneti c Transcription Systems for Chines e 99

Pinyin Yale Wade-Giles Zhuyin

uen wen un

uang wang uang

ueng ung ung

ü yu ü

üe ywe üeh

üan yuan üan

ün yun ün

Wade-Giles System Exceptions

Description Pinyin Wade-Giles

hen preceded by zh, ch, sh, or r i ih

hen preceded by z, c, or s i û

hen preceded by y e eh

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