I don't speak Chinese, but for French, Spanish and Hebrew I installed the appropriate software keyboard which allows me to switch keyboards with a shortcut. I think I mentioned this in a previous conversation about using accents with deadkeys.
Spanish: mañana, qué pasa Hebrew: מה קורה Of course it helps to speak the language. ned Edward Blumenthal [email protected] 2009/9/2 Craig Tatham <[email protected]>: > Ah, I see your issue. If you can get the images in text format then you can > use Google Translate just like any other language. For example: > http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/index_ch.php > 綠營邀達賴來台 台灣罵的比中國還大聲 = > "Pan-green camp to invite the Dalai Lama to Taiwan and Taiwan than China has > loudly criticized " > If you just have an image then that is the same as trying to pulling out > english characters from an image. You are going to either have to find > something that will do OCR on the image or YOU will have to do OCR on it. > You might be able to find a Chinese to English dictionary to help you find > the images. I will ask Lia tonight if there is any easier way but she > doesn't know Chinese that well either. Another option is to join a service > like Livemocha which can match you up with someone who knows Chinese who > could help and also explain the word/words you are looking for. > > From my little understanding of Chinese, each image has some meaning and > many "words" are combinations of various images. > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Perhaps an example might help. Here's an image of some Chinese >> characters: >> >> http://www.chinesecomputing.com/images/background2.gif >> >> This appears to be an array of characters of 6 columns wide and 10 >> rows deep. Counting from the upper left corner and starting with 1, >> the character in column 1, row 1 looks like a rectangle with a >> vertical line bisecting it. While the character in column 4, row 9 >> looks like a dash or horizontal line. And the character in column 6, >> row 8 looks like a cup of tea on top of a dresser. >> >> Some questions: >> >> 1) How can I find out what those characters means? >> 2) How can I use Google translate to find out what those characters mean? >> 3) Are there on-line dictionaries which I can browse to find the >> character I'm looking for? >> >> My interest is not so much in knowing what those particular characters >> mean. Rather I'm interested in knowing the process by which I can >> discover what those characters mean. >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Craig Tatham<[email protected]> wrote: >> > If you have those characters on a webpage, then you can copy and paste >> > the >> > characters into Google Translate and it will convert from Chinese to >> > English. Trick is knowing if it is simplified or traditional ... >> > typically >> > if its a very complex character it is traditional, simpler ones are >> > simplified. >> > Craig >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> How does one translate Chinese into English? >> >> >> >> I've used Google Translate to translate simple words and phrases from >> >> English to Spanish, German, or French and back. I've even used it to >> >> translate English into Chinese. But how to I translate Chinese into >> >> English? That is, how do I enter the Chinese characters? >> >> >> >> For example, I have a Chinese character that kind of looks like two >> >> W's, one on top of the other. How do I enter that in to the text box? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> - Robert >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
