On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, [iso-8859-1] Mano�l Bailly wrote:
> Could someone tell me if all accentuated characters used for pinyin
> writing is include in Unicode ?
As precomposed characters, most of them are included. You have:
1a) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
1b) all combinations of LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER {A,E,I,O,U,U WITH
DIAERESIS} AND {MACRON,ACUTE,CARON,GRAVE)
You might also need a few more characters (mostly for some interjections):
2a) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX)
2b) all combinations of LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
AND {MACRON,ACUTE,CARON,GRAVE). However, there aren't any precomposed
versions of:
*LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND MACRON
*LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND CARON
*LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND MACRON
*LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND CARON
3) all combinations of LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER M WITH {ACUTE,GRAVE}.
However, there aren't any precomposed versions of:
*LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH GRAVE
*LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH GRAVE
4) all combinations of LATIN {CAPITAL,SMALL} LETTER N WITH {ACUTE,CARON,
GRAVE} for constructing "ng" syllables.
(You can use decomposed versions for what's missing.)
> I wish to insert pinyin characters into a word document. Does someone
> know how to do it ? It seems that with IME I cannot.
I usually type Pinyin using the "Dai4 Diao4 Pinyin" input method of NJStar
Communicator (http://www.njstar.com/), which allows telex-style input,
e.g., "zhong1" is converted to <zhong> with an macron over the <o>. I
don't think it supports entry of the second set of less common characters
I described above.
Thomas Chan
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