From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pinyin character input Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 08:08:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20160207070842.GA636@tuxteam.de> References: <20160206221241.GL8496@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454831039 6376 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2016 07:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 07:43:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 07 08:43:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSK0X-0002p1-0R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:43:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSK0W-0004tf-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:43:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSK0M-0004tT-0K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:43:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSK0I-0006NU-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:56510 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSK0I-0006Mz-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aSJSc-0000RF-GQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:08:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160206221241.GL8496@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109036 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 05:12:41PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Sorry for this naive question. > > I am using chinese-py input method, but there is a character I cannot > generate. It is ji (first tone), a polite address to a woman. When I > enter "ji", the character I want is not an option. Is this a font > limitation or should I be entering the "ji" somehow with the first tone? I shouldn't be saying anything, because I'm far out of my depth here, but hey... To try to localize the character you're talking about, I went to some Wikipedia page [1]. The best match I found there (by some secret, undisclosed fuzzy matching, because revealing the details would be too embarrasing) was ~姬~姬jī A suffix used for a female friend, maiden. "Guniang" (Chinese: 姑娘; pinyin: gūniang) is sometimes used. (note: Chinese characters might be mangled; my terminal font can't display them). Copying that from the browser and yanking into Emacs produces a pretty similar ideograph, so it seems I was onto something. Putting mark there and typing "M-x describe-char" gives a lot of info. The relevant tidbit: to input: type "ji1" with chinese-tonepy input method So try switching to "chinese-tonepy" and entering "ji1"? Perhaps you'll find some useful hints in the above chaos; then at least there is some use for me having made a fool of myself ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_honorifics#Other_prefixes_and_suffixes - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAla27XoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ7bACfXIxpEhz/fQ+JdpASGgCpV4o3 MlEAnAiWXKdr63F9gAQ8oGPjl8oCA6uC =rV78 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----