From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pinyin character input Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:32:57 +0100 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <20160206221241.GL8496@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455118417 29042 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 15:33:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:33:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 16:33:29 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 1aTWlj-0003vu-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:33:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWlj-0002VS-1M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWlS-0002UT-PT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:33:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWlO-0002QN-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:33:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWlO-0002QG-FU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:33:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTWlM-0003cJ-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 212.211.134.206 ([212.211.134.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:33:04 +0100 Original-Received: from william.xwl by 212.211.134.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:33:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.211.134.206 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sw7Ci6qqosTDc6gQ+LsyCOW/UPI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:109090 Archived-At: Haines Brown writes: > 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? If this is what you want: ~姬 ~姬 jī A suffix used for a female friend, maiden. "Guniang" (Chinese: 姑娘; pinyin: gūniang) is sometimes used. After typing "ji", it shows up as first one on the fifth page of the candidates. (Use arrow down to see next page) -- William And in the heartbreak years that lie ahead, Be true to yourself and the Grateful Dead. -- Joan Baez