Entering Traditional Chinese Text

About This Chapter

This chapter describes Traditional Chinese Solaris input modes for typing Traditional Chinese characters. Solaris 9 provides more friendly and extensible input methods and management tools for Chinese Solaris users, including Mainland, HongKong and Taiwan users. Also an Input method auxiliary window has been developed which supports the following new functions and utilities:

• Input methods switching

• Chinese Full_Width/Half_Width Character Mode Switching

• Chinese punctuation/English punctuation Mode Switching

• Input method management panel: (Input method properties setting, Input methods selection by user)

• Lookup tables for BIG5/EUC_TW/Big5-HKSCS/Unicode characters.

• Virtual Keyboard

Two kinds of input methods are supported:

• input method based on codetable: such as TsangChieh, ...

• input method developed by vendor: such as NewChuYin, NeiMa, ...

Input methods with an auxiliary window supports all the Traditional Chinese locales:

• zh_TW/zh_TW.EUC

• zh_TW.BIG5

• zh_TW.UTF-8

• zh_HK.BIG5HK

• zh_HK.UTF-8

In all Traditional Chinese locales, the following input methods are supported:

• New ChuYin

• ChuYin

• TsangChieh

• Array

• Boshiamy

• DaYi

• ChienI

• Cantonese

• EUC NeiMa

• BIG5 NeiMa

• BIG5_HKSCS NeiMa

• English-Chinese

• Optional Codetable Input Methods (such as PinYin, ...)

You can type any Traditional Chinese characters, ASCII/English, and special symbol characters in the input area of the following applications:

• Terminal emulation (TTY) windows, such as a Terminal

• Text entry subwindows, such as those used by Text Editor or Mailer

• Control panel subwindows, like File Manager, for typing a file name

• Other special use subwindows, such as pop-ups