On 04/03/2007, at 5:17 PM, David Noel wrote:
-- Has anyone any experience on inputting Chinese characters into a
Mac, eg into an Appleworks word processing file?
-- I've found out a certain amount, but can't get past some
difficulties. With a word processing page, choosing a Chinese font
such as Beijing used to let me create characters by hitting one or
two alphabetic characters followed by Return. Now that feature
seems to have vanished, I just get the roman-font characters. I've
tried to find a table of key combinations giving particular
characters, but no luck.
-- The 'Show Character Palette' under the flag menu brings up a
table of characters,
Under that flag go - open international -> input menu
follow down until you get to S simplified chinese
Check the box of your choice
Then with Appleworks open select under the flag the text you want ...
australian or chinese
It seems you can switch back and forth
clumsy but may do what you want
but copying and pasting characters from this into an Appleworks
document does not work. Also, this palette used to offer the Pinyin
(romanization) equivalent for a character (eg ma1), but this is now
always blank for me.
-- Does anybody know any answers on this, or where to look? I've
googled many pages, but so far only found ones which describe the
various input methods and coding schemes used, rather than
practical stuff on what keys to press to get the ma1 character. TIA.
David Noel
2007 March 4
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