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You need
freely downloadable Unicode
TrueType fonts with codepages and a tool to input CJK. The
best integrated input tools are Microsoft's free input method editors but they only provide the basic
input methods and they can only
be used with second generation Unicode applications like Office 2000
or Netscape 4.72.
CJK enablers, aka. double-byte
managers, let you read and write CJK in both Unicode-compliant and
pre-Unicode applications and they provide more input methods than the input method editors.
Users of Word 97 can also input Chinese with a free
macro.
CJK enablers
If you use a CJK enabler with a Unicode-compliant application then GB,
Big5, Shift-JIS, EUC, KSC, etc. no longer mean what they originally
do but stand for the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
and Korean subsets of Unicode.
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Click here to learn about
CJK input methods.
The least expensive CJK enabler. It supports the following
character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8 (read-only)
| UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| HZ, ISO-2022
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods.
It has the most input methods of all
CJK enablers. You can input
compounds and phrases, not just individual characters.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Multilingual
| UTF-8
| MIME, UTF-7
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| MIME
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB, GBK
| MIME, HZ, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-GB
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| MIME, ISO-2022, ISO-2022-KR
|
Only the GB portion of GBK is supplied with input methods. You
can use the Chinese, Japanese and Korean input methods to input UTF-8.
UnionWay AsianSuite X2
A modular CJK enabler: you can choose what languages and how many fonts
you want to install.
Supported character sets and
encoding forms:
-
| Language
| R/W 8-bit
| View 7-bit
|
| Traditional Chinese
| Big5
| -
|
| Simplified Chinese
| GB (= EUC-CN)
| HZ
|
| Japanese
| Shift-JIS, EUC-JP
| ISO-2022, ISO-2022-JP
|
| Korean
| KSC (= EUC-KR)
| ISO-2022-KR
|
Type the pronunciation in Pinyin (without tones) and select your character from
the list displayed on the input bar. Press Ctrl+Space to switch
between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.