On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 01:05 AM, Eric Muller wrote:
We have a very hard time assembling the following information: on MacOS X and Windows XP, how do users practically enter JIS 0213, HKSCS and GB 18030 characters? We are interested by both OS provided IMEs and third party IMEs. Of course, we are interested in the more "recent" characters in those sets, e.g. those in 0213 and HKSCS that map to Plane 2.On Mac OS X, all of these require an application that supports Unicode input, such as TextEdit, Mail, the Finder, iPhoto, etc. Mac OS X 10.2 includes font support for the full JIS X 0213 and GB 18030 repertoires; there is not currently full font support for HKSCS.
Can anybody help? I'll summarize to the list.
1. JIS X 0213
- Our Japanese input method, Kotoeri, has words with JIS X 0213 characters in its dictionary, such as "moriougai". The second candidate for "ougai" is a JIS X 0213 character, as indicated by the little green triangle in the candidate window. In this way JIS X 0213 characters show up just as any other characters.
- Using the Character Palette (new in Mac OS X 10.2), JIS X 0213 characters can be entered either using the Japanese view (e.g., via radical/stroke lookup) or the Unicode view, which lists characters by Unicode blocks or code points, including Extension B.
2. GB 18030
- The Simplified Chinese input method has a direct GB 18030 code point entry method.
- The Character Palette can be used as for JIS X 0213, and the Simplified Chinese view includes GB 18030 characters in the radical/stroke tab.
- The SC input method is extensible, and we include a sample file with Pinyin support for GB 18030: /Applications/Utilities/Asia Text Extras/Plugin_Text_Sample/AllGB18030-PinYinPlugin.dat. If this file is copied to ~/Library/ChineseInputMethodPlug-in/, when you next login you will have this support.
3. HKSCS
- At this time, the only way to enter all HKSCS characters is via the Character Palette. The subset that corresponds to MacTraditionalChinese can be entered via the Traditional Chinese input method.
I hope this helps...
Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts & Unicode
Apple Computer, Inc.
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