Re: case-sensitivity

Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@xxxxxx> writes:

Nils M Holm wrote:
Matthias Blume <find@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, if you can read kanji, then this (editing them using a US
keyboard) is the easy part.
I would be really interested in hearing how this works.

I just fired up the Kotoeri on my Mac as Matthias suggested. Say, in
Hiragana mode (the main Japanese syllabic script) you can type
syllables using the standard ASCII transcription (so "hon" yields
ほん. If you type space or down after those three letters, you get a
pop-up with several Kanji, so you can choose for instance
œ; IIRC that means "book" (I haven't done any Japanese in
more than ten years)). AFAIK Windows machines, or at least standard
Asian word processors on Windows have used this input method for at
least a decade. Not sure how the chinese do it, though. My Mac lists
several methods of which only "Pinyin" (a standard transcription for
Traditional Chinese) rings a bell.

Interesting is that the input menu lists Chinese and Japanese as not
outputting Unicode, but Japanese and Chinese encodings. Not sure what
that means for multilanguage code ;)

On Windows machines (and Macs, IIRC), you use IME's for Chinese, one
of many. In my case, and I think most non-Chinese occassional Chinese
typists, the Pinyin IME is the one to use. And I believe that both
Windows XP and Mac send the characters to the editor using UTF unless
specifically told to use something else. There are other third-party
IME's which send the characters in the other character sets.

For some people the Chinese IME they prefer are not the ones which map
1-1 to a QWERTY US keyboard, but the ones that actually have a key
representing things such as shape of the character or particular (what
are they called now?) trigraphs (??).

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