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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		12/26/2002; 5:52:38 AM
Topic:		Back to learning how to work with Chinese
Msg #:		679 (top msg in thread)
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Back to learning how to work with Chinese #

I've been back at trying to learn how to work with Chinese characters on a computer. I think that I've just figured a way to insert Chinese characters into my Manila site. It's kinda awkward since I don't believe that Frontier/Manila handles Unicode natively. So I have to use Javascript to indirectly generate characters. Here's my last name (Yu2 in Mandarin):

More later....
[Doh -- I just figured out that I don't need to use Javascript! I can use numerical character references in HTML!

With that knowledge in hand, I will now write out my Chinese name: 余俊雄. My last name is 0x4f59 in Unicode.... The challenge is obviously how to practically generate the right sequences without having to remember the exact Unicode placement of characters! It should be obvious that I didn't look through the entire Unicode table for the characters -- so how did I put my name together. I'll write more later.]

Posted by Raymond Yee on 12/26/02; 6:04:54 AM
from the Bach dept.
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