Re: Simplified/Traditional Hanzi Input

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:26:41 +0300, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

>Hello, ppl!
>
>A question for those who create Hanzi based conscripts: how do you combine usage
>of Simplified and Traditional forms in one text? The problem I meet: I'd like to
>use Simplified forms, but some of the are found only in Japanese version, while
>the Chinese uses only a traditional form (e.g. in Chinese we find only 9ED1 for
>'black', but in Japanese we get a simpler form 9ED2).
>
>Any ideas?
Well, if you have Windows 2000 or XP, you can use the Alt+X trick in
WordPad (type the Unicode number, then Alt+X to turn it into a character)
If you're using an IME to enter the text, I think there's a way to assign a
key to switch from one to the other, but I never learned how to use the
IME's. I use JWPce if I want to type Japanese, or Global Writer for
Chinese. I imagine you could use the radical lookup in JWPce to insert
characters that you wouldn't normally be able to type.

None of this was available when I did the Kirezagi page; I had to resort to
cutting and pasting UTF-8 characters by hand (before I had a version of
Word that knew anything about Unicode), which is why it never got very far.
These days I'd do a search on a Japanese or Chinese dictionary and copy the
character from there.

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