Apple Chinese Language Kit User Manual

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Apple Chinese Language Kit User Manual

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Chinese Language Kit

User’s Manual

Includes instructions for installing

and using your software

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Contents

Preface

About This Manual 7

 

Who Should Read This Manual?

7

 

Where to Get Help 7

 

1

About the Chinese Language Kit 9

 

What Is the Chinese Language Kit? 9

 

Writing-Based Input Systems

10

 

Sound-Based Input Systems

11

 

Other Features of the Chinese Language Kit 11

 

Other Chinese Language Kit Sof tware 12

 

The Chinese Language Kit Fonts 12

 

The Localized SimpleText Programs 12

 

The Language Register Program 13

 

Chinese Utility Applications

13

 

What Are Scripts? 14

 

2

Installing and Setting Up the Software 15

System Requirements 15

Installing the Sof tware 16

Where the Files Are Located 17 Using the Keyboard Menu 18

Displaying Finder Names in Chinese 18

Changing Sorting Order With the Text Control Panel 19

Choosing a Language for an Application Program 20 Converting Plug-ins 20

3

Removing the Chinese Language Kit 21

3 Using the Traditional Chinese Input Method

23

What Is the Traditional Chinese Input Method?

23

 

 

 

Starting to Use the Traditional Chinese Input Method

23

 

 

Step 1:

Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method

24

 

Step 2:

Choose an Input Mode

25

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences 25

 

 

Step 4: Enter the Character 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entering and Editing Characters 26

 

 

 

 

 

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Cangjie Input Mode

26

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Jianyi Input Mode

29

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Dayi Input Mode

31

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Pinyin Input Mode

34

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Zhuyin Input Mode

37

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Big5 Code Input Mode 39

Entering Roman Characters 40

 

 

 

 

 

Entering Punctuation, Symbols,

Numbers, and Special Characters 41

Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document 42

 

 

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 42

 

 

 

 

Using Palettes 44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input 44

 

 

 

 

Using the Selection Palette

45

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Operation Palette

45

 

 

 

 

 

Using the Character Table 46

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finding the Input Code for a Character

47

 

 

 

 

Selecting Preferences 48

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selecting General Preferences 48

 

 

 

 

 

Selecting Dictionary Preferences 50

 

 

 

 

Selecting Input Mode Preferences

55

 

 

 

 

Resetting Default Preferences

55

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Using the Simplified Chinese Input Method

57

What Is the Simplified Chinese Input Method?

57

 

 

 

Starting to Use the Simplified Chinese Input Method

57

 

 

4 Contents

Step 1:

Choose the Simplified Chinese Input Method 58

 

 

Step 2:

Choose an Input Mode

59

 

 

Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences 59

 

 

Step 4: Enter the Character 59

 

 

 

Entering and Editing Characters 60

 

 

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Xing Input Mode

60

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Wubi Hua Input Mode

64

Entering Chinese Characters Using the ABC Input Mode

66

 

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Quwei Input Mode

76

 

Entering Roman Characters 77

 

 

Entering Punctuation, Symbols,

Numbers, and Special Characters 79

Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document 79

 

 

Entering Your Own Chinese Characters 80

 

 

Using Palettes 82

 

 

 

 

Using the Input Palette and Inline Input 82

 

 

Using the Selection Palette

83

 

 

 

Using the Operation Palette

83

 

 

Using the Character Table 84

 

 

 

Finding the Input Code for a Character 85

 

 

Selecting Preferences 86

 

 

 

 

Selecting General Preferences 87

 

 

Selecting ABC Preferences 88

 

 

 

Selecting Wubi Hua Preferences 89

 

 

Selecting Dictionary Preferences 90

 

 

Resetting Default Preferences

94

 

 

 

5 Troubleshooting 95

Appendix

Phonetic Transcription Systems for Chinese 97

Phonetic Transcriptions 97 Wade-Giles System Exceptions 100

Contents 5

P R E F A C E

About This Manual

Who Should Read This Manual?

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

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

Roman characters or Chinese symbols.

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

You can use the Chinese Language Kit with application programs that are localized for

Chinese. To learn how to use these applications and to determine whether they provide special features for working with Chinese characters, see the manuals that came with the applications.

Where to Get Help

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

http://www.apple.com/

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C H A P T 1E R

1 About the Chinese Language Kit

What Is the Chinese Language Kit?

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

Most computer keyboards are designed to type one-byte Roman characters. The Chinese Language Kit sof tware adapts your Roman-based keyboard so you can enter two-byte

Chinese characters on your computer. This sof tware is called an input method, which is based on Apple’s WorldScript technology. (For more information about this technology, see

“What Are Scripts?” on page 14 of this chapter.)

The Chinese Language Kit provides two input methods for the two Chinese writing systems:

Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Each system uses many characters, and while the characters in each system are related, they are different.

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

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

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Writing-Based Input Systems

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

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

Note: The word radical is also used to designate the root of a character.

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

mA stroke-based input system defines the basic strokes used to write Chinese characters and assigns the strokes to keys on the Roman-based keyboard.

mA radical-based input system defines the radicals used to write Chinese characters and assigns the radicals to keys on the Roman-based keyboard.

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

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

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

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

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

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Sound-Based Input Systems

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

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

To use the Chinese phonetic symbols effectively, you need to know how to speak Chinese characters and transcribe them into the phonetic symbols.

mTyping Roman characters to spell the Chinese characters using the Pinyin phonetic transcription system

Pinyin is popular with users who do not know how to write Chinese characters and may have limited knowledge of how to pronounce Chinese words.

Because Chinese words are distinguished by subtle tonal variations that are difficult to transcribe phonetically, many different Chinese characters have the same phonetic spelling in Pinyin. When you enter the Pinyin for a Chinese character, the input system

of ten identifies many characters with that spelling and you must choose the character you want. For example, 34 Traditional Chinese characters are transcribed in Pinyin as “ren” and appear as alternatives if you enter these Roman characters.

Note: The Traditional Chinese Pinyin input mode allows you to enter a number for the tonal variation to narrow the list of alternatives.

Although entering Chinese using Pinyin requires several steps, it allows people who are 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 Simplified Chinese input methods provide other important features:

man input mode that allows you to type Roman characters

man input mode for entering AppleShare passwords

ma dictionary in which you can define your own words and phrases

mpalettes for looking up the input keys for characters, punctuation, and symbols

man option to show the key combinations to enter characters in the selection palette

man option to display other characters frequently associated with a character you enter

About the Chinese Language Kit 11

Other Chinese Language Kit Software

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

The Chinese Language Kit Fonts

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

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

The Traditional Chinese fonts are

mTaipei, a bitmap font

mApple LiSung Light, a printing-style TrueType font

mApple LiGothic Medium, a bold TrueType font

mBiauKai, a brushstroke-style TrueType font

The Simplified Chinese fonts are

mBeijing, a bitmap font

mSong, a printing-style TrueType font

mFang Song, a handwriting-style TrueType font

mHei, a bold-style TrueType font

mKai, a brushstroke-style TrueType font

The Localized SimpleText Programs

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

mTraditional Chinese SimpleText, localized with 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 program does not need to be localized into Chinese.

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The Language Register Program

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

Language Kit installed.

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

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

Chinese Utility Applications

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

Program

Description

TrueType Font Editor

Lets you create your own TrueType Chinese characters that you

 

can use in your documents

 

 

Input Method Plug-in Converter

Lets you convert a text file that specifies an input method plug-

 

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

 

add input modes and other features to the input method.

 

 

Sample (SC) and Sample (TC)

Example plug-ins you can use to learn how to write one

 

 

Simplified Chinese

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

Dictionary Tool

Simplified Chinese Input Method

(filename “Simp. Chinese

 

DicTool”)

 

 

 

The Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool (filename “Trad. Chinese DicTool”) application is also provided with the Chinese Language Kit and it continues to be used as the dictionary for the

Traditional Chinese Input Method. It’s in the Extensions folder.

About the Chinese Language Kit 13

What Are Scripts?

The input methods of the Chinese Language Kit are based on Apple’s WorldScript technology. With WorldScript sof tware 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

mthe characters the script contains and the keystrokes that produce each character

mthe direction in which text flows (lef t to right or right to lef t)

mhow to sort words

mhow to separate words and lines of text

mhow 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 currency.

For example, if you’re working in English, then the Roman script is your primary script. This means that the Roman character set is available to you and that text flows from lef t to right as you type characters.

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

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

mRoman—French, Italian, Spanish, English, and German

mArabic—Arabic and Persian

mCyrillic—Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Bulgarian

mHebrew—Hebrew, Yiddish

mIndian—Devanagari (Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali), Gujarati, and Gurmukhi (Punjabi)

mJapanese

mKorean

mThai

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

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C H A P T 2E R

2 Installing and Setting Up the Software

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

mchoose a keyboard layout or input method from the Keyboard menu

muse Chinese characters for file and folder names in the Finder

mselect the behavior for the Traditional Chinese Input Method using the Text control panel

mregister an application that is localized for Chinese using the Language Register program

System Requirements

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

Item

Requirement

Computer

Mac OS–based with a 68030, 68040, or PowerPCmicroprocessor

RAM

At least 12 megabytes (MB) of actual RAM

 

 

Disk space (free)1

Using Easy Install requires up to 40 MB.2

 

Using Custom Install to install

 

m the minimum Traditional Chinese Input Method requires 6 MB

 

m the minimum Simplified Chinese Input Method requires 4 MB

 

m the complete Traditional Chinese Input Method requires 42 MB

 

m the complete Simplified Chinese Input Method requires 37 MB

 

m the TrueType Font Editor application requires 17 kilobytes (K)

 

 

System sof tware

Version 7.6 or later

 

 

1When you are installing the software, the amount of disk space required may be greater than the amount shown here because the Installer program temporarily saves files it is replacing.

2The amount of disk space required may be less than 40 MB depending on the version of system software installed on your computer and the size of your hard disk.

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Installing the Software

You install the Chinese Language Kit sof tware using the Installer program located on the

Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc.

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

To install the Chinese Language Kit sof tware, follow these steps:

1Insert the Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc in your CD-ROM disc drive.

2Double-click the Installer icon.

3Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears.

4Read the License Agreement that appears, then click Agree to continue.

The Installer dialog box appears.

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

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

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

Warning If you install only the input method fonts, you will not be able to use the fonts, and your system may not work properly.

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

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

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

7When you are ready, click Install.

8Follow the directions that appear onscreen.

9If a message appears telling you that you need to restart your computer, click Restart.

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Where the Files Are Located

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

Note: The files installed in the Extensions folder depend 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 Read folder (on your hard disk.)

The Traditional Chinese Input Method uses these files:

Item

Location

Fonts: Taipei, Apple LiSung, Apple LiGothic1

Fonts folder (in the System Folder)

Traditional Chinese SimpleText program

Hard disk

 

 

Language Register program

Apple Extras folder (on your hard disk)

Key Caps program2

 

Chinese Utilities folder

 

 

 

Input Method Plug-in Converter program

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder)

Sample (TC)

 

 

 

1You can use Custom Install to install the BiauKai font.

2Key Caps is installed in the Apple Menu Items folder (in the System Folder) if an older version is already in the folder.

The Simplified Chinese Input Method uses these files:

Item

Location

Fonts: Beijing, Kai, Song1

Fonts folder

 

(in the System Folder)

 

 

Simplified Chinese SimpleText program

Hard disk

 

 

Language Register program

Apple Extras folder

Key Caps program2

(on your hard disk)

Chinese Utilities folder

 

 

 

Input Method Plug-in Converter program

Chinese Utilities folder (in the Apple Extras folder)

Sample (SC)

 

 

 

1You can use Custom Install to install the Fang Song and Hei fonts.

2Key Caps is installed in the Apple Menu Items folder (in the System Folder) if an older version is already in the folder.

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

Chinese Utilities folder.

Installing and Setting Up the Software 17

Using the Keyboard Menu

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

Keyboard menu icon

You use the Keyboard menu to select the keyboard layout or input method you want to use.

The Keyboard menu has a section for each script installed on your computer. The section for the primary script of your system sof tware appears at the top of the menu. If the primary script of your system sof tware is the Roman script, then the first section of the menu lists the keyboard layouts available for Roman-based languages. Af ter you install the Chinese

Language Kit, a section appears at the bottom of the menu for each script you installed.

If the primary script of your system 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 select a keyboard layout or an input method, do one of the following:

mChoose the item from the menu.

mType x–Option–Space bar to select the next item in the same section of the menu, if you select the option in the Keyboard control panel.

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

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

Displaying Finder Names in Chinese

Af ter 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:

1Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Views control panel.

2Choose the font you want to use from the “Font for views” pop-up menu.

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

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3Change the size of the font to 9 or 12 point.

4Close the control panel.

If you are using system software version 8.0 or later:

1In the Finder, choose Preferences from the Edit menu.

2Choose the font you want to use from the “Font for views” pop-up menu.

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

3Change the size of the font to 9 or 12 point.

4Close the Preferences window.

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

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

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

Changing Sorting Order With the Text Control Panel

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

mthe order in which text is sorted

mhow uppercase and lowercase characters are converted

mhow words are separated from one another

The Simplified Chinese Input Method provides only one sorting order. The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides three sorting orders. To change the sorting order for

Traditional Chinese, follow these steps:

1Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Text control panel.

2Choose Traditional Chinese from the Script pop-up menu.

3Choose the behavior you want to use from the Behavior pop-up menu.

Choose this:

To sort by this:

Code-order sort

The Big5 Code code number

Radical-stroke sort

Radicals first, then strokes

Stroke-radical sort

Strokes first, then radicals

 

 

4 Close the Text control panel.

Installing and Setting Up the Software 19

Choosing a Language for an Application Program

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

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

1Open the Language Register program in the Apple Extras folder. The Language Register dialog box appears.

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

Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese.

3Click Register.

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

5Click Register.

6Click OK in the dialog box that appears.

7Click OK in the Language Register dialog box to make Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese the default language used by the Language Register application and to close the application.

Click Cancel to close the application without changing the default language.

To register a program in the default language, drag the program to the Language Register application. You can make copies of the Language Register application with different default languages selected to register programs.

You can register a program with only one language. If you decide to register a program with a different language af ter 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 af ter you register it, it will no longer be registered.

Converting Plug-ins

Plug-ins provide additional features and capabilities to the input methods. To create a plug-in you specify what the plug-in does using a text file. See the “Sample (SC)” or the “Sample

(TC)” text files in the Chinese Utilities folder for an example of an input method plug-in.

When you have created the plug-in text file, you need to convert it using the Input Method

Plug-in Converter program so that you can use it with the input method.

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To convert a plug-in, follow these steps:

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

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

2Choose Open from the File menu.

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

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

Removing the Chinese Language Kit

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

To remove the Chinese Language Kit sof tware, follow these steps:

1Insert the Chinese Language Kit CD-ROM disc in the CD-ROM disc drive.

2Double-click the Installer icon.

3Click Continue when the Installer dialog box appears.

4Click Agree when the License Agreement dialog box appears.

The Installer dialog box appears.

5Choose Custom Remove from the pop-up menu.

6Click to select the sof tware you want to remove.

Warning If you remove the “Minimum Simplified Chinese and Beijing Font” or the “Minimum Traditional Chinese and Taipei Font” option and you do not remove the other input method fonts, you will not be able to use the fonts and your system sof tware may not work properly.

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

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

8When you are ready, click Remove.

9Follow any directions that appear onscreen.

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

Installing and Setting Up the Software 21

C H A P T 3E R

3Using the Traditional Chinese Input Method

What Is the Traditional Chinese Input Method?

The Traditional Chinese Input Method allows you to enter traditional-style Chinese characters, punctuation, and symbols. The Traditional Chinese Input Method includes over

13,000 traditional Chinese characters, which you can enter using one of several input modes.

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

mopen palettes for looking up and entering characters, punctuation marks, and symbols

muse dictionaries created with the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool, create new dictionaries, and add your own phrases to a dictionary

mdisplay the key combinations to enter characters in the character selection palette

mdisplay characters frequently associated with a character you enter

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

Starting to Use the Traditional Chinese Input Method

To begin to use the Traditional Chinese Input Method, follow the steps in this section.

Before you start: You may want to open an application, such as Traditional Chinese

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

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Step 1: Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method

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

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

To use the Traditional Chinese Input Method, perform this step:

m Choose the Traditional Chinese Input Method from the Keyboard menu.

Keyboard menu

Keyboard layouts

(Layouts available on your computer may be different.)

Traditional Chinese Input Method

The Pencil menu appears in the menu bar.

Pencil menu

 

 

 

Pencil menu

 

 

 

Input modes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input modes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choose here to view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choose here to view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the menu in English.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the menu in Chinese.

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

Important When the Pencil menu appears, it is in Chinese. If you want to see the menu items in English, choose Show English Menu from the menu.

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

Pencil menu.

Choose an input mode here.

Click here to see the Preferences dialog box.

Click here to open the Traditional Chinese Dictionary Tool application.

Click here to see the Character table.

Step 2: Choose an Input Mode

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

Step 3: Choose Other Options and Preferences

Af ter you choose an input mode, you may want to select other options or select preferences using the Preferences dialog box. Some options affect the behavior of all the input modes, while others are only available for certain input modes. See the next section, “Entering and

Editing Characters,” to learn about the options you can select for each input mode.

Step 4: Enter the Character

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

As you enter characters, you may see one or more palettes:

mThe input palette appears if the application or dialog box where you are entering characters does not allow you to enter characters directly into a document or text box.

(See “Using the Input Palette and Inline Input” on page 44.)

mThe selection palette appears if the input mode matches more than one Chinese character with the keys you press. You can select and enter a character from the palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

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

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Entering and Editing Characters

The Traditional Chinese Input Method provides the following input modes.

Input mode

Method for entering characters

Cangjie

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

 

the character.

 

 

Jianyi (simple Cangjie)

Press keys for the first and last radicals defined by the Cangjie

 

input mode to write the character.

 

 

Dayi

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

 

the character.

 

 

Pinyin

Press Roman keys to spell the character phonetically using the

 

Pinyin transcription system.

 

 

Zhuyin

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

 

character phonetically.

 

 

Big5 Code

Type a hexadecimal code for the character.

 

 

Password

Type an AppleShare password.1

1If your AppleShare password is not accepted and you are sure you have typed the password correctly, choose this input mode before you enter the password again.

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

Traditional Chinese Input Method.

Entering Chinese Characters Using the Cangjie Input Mode

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

Important This manual explains how to use Cangjie with the Chinese Language Kit, but does not explain how to use the Cangjie radicals. Several books are available in Chinese that describe how to use Cangjie.

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

Q

W

E

R

 

T

Y

U

I

O

P

A

S

D

 

F

 

G

H

J

K

L

 

Z

X

C

V

 

B

N

M

,

 

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

1Choose Cangjie from the Pencil menu.

2Select the options you want to use:

If you want to

Do this:

See the selection palette as soon

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

as you begin entering radicals

Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences”

 

on page 48.)

 

 

See the keys to enter characters

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

in the selection palette

 

 

 

See suggestions for subsequent

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

characters to enter

The selection palette appears af ter you enter a character

 

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

 

 

Keep the input palette open

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

while entering characters

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General

 

Preferences” on page 48.)

 

 

Keep characters in the input

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

palette

 

 

 

Use dictionary files

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

 

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

 

on page 50.)

 

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

 

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

 

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then

 

enter the first character in the phrase using Cangjie. The

 

selection palette shows the phrase for you to select.

 

 

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

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

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

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

4Do one of the following:

mPress Return to enter the character.

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

mPress 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.

mPress Enter to enter the radicals without converting them to a character.

5If the selection palette appears, find the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

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

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

English

Chinese

 

Cangjie

Cangjie

word

character

Pinyin

keys

radicals

Apple

 

ping

tyhc

 

 

 

guo

wd

 

 

 

 

 

 

Computer

 

dian

mbwu

 

 

 

nao

bvvw

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Entering Chinese Characters Using the Jianyi Input Mode

The Jianyi input mode is a simplified form of Cangjie. It uses the same radicals as Cangjie.

Using Jianyi to enter a character, you press the key for the first and last radicals that you would enter using Cangjie, unless you can specify the character with a single key.

Important This manual explains how to use Jianyi with the Chinese Language Kit, but does not explain how to use the Jianyi radicals. Several books are available in Chinese that describe how to use Jianyi.

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

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

1Choose Jianyi from the Pencil menu.

2Select the options you want to use:

If you want to

Do this:

See the selection palette as soon

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Use

as you begin entering radicals

Dynamic Search option. (See “Selecting General Preferences”

 

on page 48.)

 

 

See the keys to enter characters

Choose Show Input Keys from the Pencil menu.

in the selection palette

 

 

 

See suggestions for subsequent

Choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu.

characters to enter

The selection palette appears af ter you enter a character

 

showing characters that commonly follow the one you entered.

 

 

Keep the input palette open

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the Keep

while entering characters

Input Palette Open option. (See “Selecting General

 

Preferences” on page 48.)

 

 

Keep characters in the input

Choose Store Characters from the Pencil menu.

palette

 

 

 

Use dictionary files

Choose Preferences from the Pencil menu and select the

 

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

 

on page 50.)

 

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

 

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

 

choose Show Associated Words from the Pencil menu; then

 

enter the first character in the phrase using Jianyi. The selection

 

palette shows the phrase for you to select.

 

 

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

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

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

4Do one of the following:

mPress Return to enter the character.

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

mPress the Space bar to see the selection palette.

mPress Enter to enter the radicals without converting them to a character.

5If the selection palette appears, find the character you want to enter and click it to enter it in the document or input palette. (See “Using the Selection Palette” on page 45.)

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

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

English

Chinese

 

Jianyi

Jianyi

word

character

Pinyin

keys

radicals

Apple

 

ping

tc

 

 

 

guo

wd

 

 

 

 

 

 

Computer

 

dian

mu

 

 

 

nao

bw

 

 

 

 

 

 

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