From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to input traditional chinese characters? (was: How to input chinese characters with `scim'?) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:04:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87k5ikgqvs.fsf_-_@gmail.com> References: <87ej8sj3hb.fsf@gmail.com> <87wsmk4963.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209249639 23350 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2008 22:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:40:39 +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 Apr 27 00:41:14 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jpt4x-0000h9-NL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jpt4H-0000W7-9f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.201.164.109 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1209247441 12562 217.201.164.109 (26 Apr 2008 22:04:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:04:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OQ9OWj+k3kLKzsZoDYCSN+QbW/Q= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158201 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53568 Archived-At: Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> With `chinese-py' input method I can input simplified Chinese characters; >> instead with `chinese-py-b5' there are only white squares. What am I >> missing? Eli Zaretskii writes: > If you go to one of the empty boxes and type "C-u C-x =", what does > Emacs tell you about the character it cannot display? This is Emacs response: character: δΈ­ (152420, #o451544, #x25364, U+4E2D) charset: chinese-big5-1 (Frequently used part (A141-C67F) of Big5 (Chinese traditional).) code point: #x26 #x64 syntax: w which means: word category: C:Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets c:Chinese |:While filling, we can break a line at this character. to input: type "zhong1" or "zhong4" with chinese-py-b5 buffer code: #x98 #xA6 #xE4 file code: #xE4 #xB8 #xAD (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8) display: no font available There are text properties here: fontified t . What do you suggest? Certainly something important must be missing. Thanks indeed! Rodolfo