FW: Windows 2000 Chinese IME

[Magda Danish (Unicode)]

-----Original Message----- From: 952470 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:48 AM To: Magda Danish (Unicode) Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Chinese IME Thank you for your tips concerning Chinese Unicode fonts. It works fine now. I have tried Windows 2000 Simplified Chinese IME together with the Pinyin input method. Due to the fact that I have to input a large number of single Chinese characters (not words) only I would prefer to input Pinyin together with tone numbers. E.g. Typing "ma2" into the IME I would like to choose its character only among characters representing "ma3",  not "ma2" or "mashang" etc. With Windows 2000 Pinyin IME it takes sometimes a very long time before finding the necessary character. Is there a solution to this problem ? Thank you Viktor Herzberg   "Magda Danish (Unicode)" schrieb:   -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pratley Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:24 PM To: Magda Danish (Unicode); Unicode List Subject: RE: Unicode and CJK unification   Arial Unicode MS uses CJK glyphs from various cultural styles, so if you need a "pure" font, you would be better off using a font that specifically targets a particular locale e.g. MingliU for Traditional Chinese, and Simsun for Simplified Chinese. Both of these come with Office2000. Regarding the Windows2000 IMEs, which ones did you try? There are several for both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Which type of input method do you prefer? (CangJie, Wubi, pinyin etc.) What specifically was wrong with them all when you say "did not get satisfying results"?  Chris Sent with Office2000 SR1 wordmail -----Original Message----- From: Magda Danish (Unicode) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:47 AM To: Unicode List Subject: FW: Unicode and CJK unification -----Original Message----- From: 952470 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unicode and CJK unification Dear Sir or Madam,  currently I am compiling a modern Chinese language dictionary using WIndows 2000 and Office 2000 (English edition). My font is  MS Arial Unicode.  All my data will be encoded in Unicode and Iwould prefer to stay with it due to the future compatibility. I use traditional and simplified Chinese characters.  I have 2 questions:  1) In my work I have to use Chinese (traditional and simplified) characters only therefore I cannot use e.g. Japanese variants.  But because of the CJK unification I don't find all the Chinese forms of the characters I need. What would you recommend to me?  2) I tried several Chinese programms (Twinbridge 4.98 with Win2000 update and NJStar communicator 2.2) for input of Chinese into Access 2000, but didn't get satisfying results, Microsoft's IME for Windows 2000 is not very convinient for my purpose either. Is there any fully Unicode-compatible software for entering Chinese, which you personally used and had positive expirience with ? ( I had already a look at your page http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/products.html !)  Thank you !  Your earliest reply will be highly appreciated  Viktor Herzberg