|
Post by maaltan on May 18, 2006 0:32:18 GMT
first is hu in chinese which is the name of the barbarian tribe (literal translation: moon tribe?) Where did you get that from? For me, 胡 has the radical for 'meat' and the 'gu' is the phonetic, so nothing to do with moon (common mistake for those who are not familiar with Kangxi classification). 'Hu' means 'wild'. I got it from a random site i guess. sorry. As i said thats about all the chinese i know. Thanks for the correction.
|
|
|
Post by paulv on May 18, 2006 14:39:35 GMT
Here's the entry from NJStar's dictionary, if anyone is interested:
"胡【hú】 non-Han nationalities living in the north and west in ancient times; introduced from the northern and western nationalities or from abroad; recklessly; wantonly; outrageously; why; moustache, beard or whiskers; surname."
Regards, Paul....
|
|
karl
Intermediate
Posts: 35
|
Post by karl on Jun 1, 2006 23:01:06 GMT
maaltan
I'm just dying to know how you type Chinese in. Chinese words entered into the message box comes out as garbage for me.
-karl
|
|
|
Post by jdclay on Jun 1, 2006 23:39:12 GMT
Karl,
Go to View, Character encoding, and go to Chinese simplified or Traditional big5.
Regards, Justin
|
|
karl
Intermediate
Posts: 35
|
Post by karl on Jun 3, 2006 2:41:31 GMT
The problem is not viewing the characters. It's posting them. the character hu as pasted from a post above comes out as ŒÓ
|
|
|
Post by calden on Jun 3, 2006 3:17:04 GMT
I think you need to have the "character encoding" turned on for chinese. One would think this only applies to reading characters, but on my Mac I need to not only turn on the Chinese input method (Mac System option) but also turn on the character encoding in my browser.
carlos 是这样子
|
|
|
Post by maaltan on Jun 3, 2006 13:25:49 GMT
I post my characters as unicode using window's language bar. Unicode appears to work correctly on all newer OS's (although I think someone mentioned it didn't, what os/archetecture do you have, im just curious)
YOu need to install the microsoft pinyin IME (chinese PRC specifically) language and beat on it until you can get the ime-pad to load where you can draw characters. if you know the pinyin you can type it in. It kind of tricky to use but you get used to it.
Everyone else here appears to be posting in GBK Chinese encoding. I have to convert my encoding to see it.
and just for fun translate this...
参有热阿代替红色
its an english sentance i typed into the pinyin translator. it is most likely garbage.
also, you will need to install eastren language support (takes about 200mb) through the regions and languages control panel.
|
|
karl
Intermediate
Posts: 35
|
Post by karl on Jun 5, 2006 14:11:28 GMT
maaltan It was an encoding problem. I had autoselect on, and when I switch the encoding, it jumps back to western. That fixes the viewing problem.
You mentioned that you are entering unicode. When looking over the raw HTML. I found that I can view chinese regardless of coding only IF it was entered as unicode. When I use the language bar, characters are saved as double byte. I'm using windows xp. How are you entering unicode? I poked around the language bar and can't see any unicode option. I'm using have Microsoft pinyin IME Version 3 (build 4427). Is that what you are using?
-karl
|
|
|
Post by Charlie Huang on Jun 5, 2006 14:18:47 GMT
Using the same thing with similar problems. Sometimes it works and does unicode, others, it doesn't.
|
|