Questions tagged [chinese]
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CTRL-Space always toggles Chinese IME (Windows 7)
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate (w/ SP1), and have multiple UI languages installed - mainly for screenshots etc. Among them are Chinese (traditional) and Chinese (Simplified), which insist on hooking ...
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How to type pinyin text with tone marks in Windows?
How do I type Chinese pinyin text with the tone marks into any application in Windows?
I am aware of the Chinese IME in Windows, which converts pinyin text I type into the Chinese stroked characters. ...
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How can I use the Chinese IME with a Dvorak layout?
I use a Dvorak keyboard layout, controlled through the language bar "United States-Dvorak". I'm trying to use the Chinese IME (Simplified, Pinyin), but whenever I switch to that mode, the keys go back ...
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How to disable Ctrl-Space selecting chinese keyboard on windows 7? [duplicate]
I would like to use both chinese keyboard and eclipse ctrl-space for suggestions popup. Since I use chinese very rare, I would like just to disable ctrl-space selecting this language.
I have removed ...
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fixing mis-encoded Chinese in file names
I'm saddled with a bunch of files whose names are garbled beyond recognition. Even though I more or less know what those names originally contained, fixing them by hand would involve a lot of hassle, ...
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Visual Studio - Search through code for Chinese text
I am trying to figure out if it's possible to search through code and stop at lines that contain Chinese characters?
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What is this mix of Chinese/Arabic/Korean/Japanese user owning a process listening on port 139?
While using an open port checking tool (Technicians toolbox v1.1.0) I found a strange user name listening on port 139 hiding in PID 4 with a mix of Chinese and other Unicode characters as the user ...
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Windows 10 Chinese (Traditional) language option differences?
When I try to add Traditional Chinese language to Windows 10, I have 3 choices:
Hong Kong SAR
Macau
Taiwan
What are the differences with these options? How do I choose one over the other?
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Windows 7 Home Premium - Unable to View Chinese Characters Properly
Is there a proper and permanent fix that will restore the display of Chinese Characters on a Windows 7 Home Premium Laptop computer?
This problem has been occurring frequently now and a simple reboot ...
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Can't see the Chinese characters in VIM
I find that when I type Chinese characters (encoded with UTF-8) into VIM, I cannot see them at all while they do exist there. I can copy and paste them into other text editors and it seems everything ...
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How can I fully uninstall the Sogou Chinese IME from Windows?
Sogou is a Chinese Input Method Editor that's very popular in Mainland China.
There's a Wikipedia page about it. And here's its official homepage (Chinese only).
I was persuaded to install it by ...
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How can I find out the encoding of this corrupted Chinese text, which an online tool fixes correctly?
I have a text in Simplified Chinese, which, when read as UTF-8 begins with ´ÓºÜ¾ÃÒÔÇ°¿ªÊ¼, which the online tool from MandarinTools (first search result for Repair Corrupted Chinese Email) fixes to ...
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How can I “reset” or “restart” the Windows 10 Simplified Chinese IME when the 英/中 stops responding?
In Windows 10's Chinese IMEs there is a clickable icon in the lower right of the screen between the touch keyboard icon and the keyboard layout icon that displays 英 when you're in English input mode ...
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Chinese IME: Microsoft or Google? [closed]
I am learning a bit of Chinese and there are two options for entering Chinese text using IME: the Chinese IME that ships with Windows and Google IME (a recent entrant).
Which do you recommend and why?...
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Chinese IME input method in AZERTY on windows (Google IME)
I'm using a Belgian Azerty keyboard.
The chinese input method on Mac OS works just fine,
but on Windows, if I use the Google IME for example,
a = z
q = w
etc... so it uses a qwerty layout even ...
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Copying Chinese Characters from PDF
I am on a Windows 7 laptop, which I believe comes preinstalled with all the language packs. I can see Chinese characters with no issues and normally can copy them fine. (From browser to Microsoft ...
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How to disable the shape toggle hotkey in Windows Chinese Input method?
In any version of Windows I have used so far (Xp, Vista, 7, 8) and all versions of the MSPY IME (RTM versions and the 2010 version)
There is this annoying bug that you cannot change or disable the ...
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Chinese language support in Windows, installed language packs but some apps still show gibberish text
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and I've installed both the Traditional and Simplified Chinese language packs. A lot of software works with Chinese text now and I'm also able to use Chinese input.
Some ...
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What is this entry in my ssh known_hosts file?
I was taking a look at my ssh known_hosts file, and it only included 2 entries. The first line was the GitHub keys, so nothing weird there. However, the second line had a bunch of Chinese text, which ...
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How can a Virtual PC with Windows XP install the East Asian Language? (or does any browser come with Chinese fonts?)
How can a Virtual PC with Windows XP on it install the East Asian Language? (or does any browser come with Chinese fonts?)
After setting up a Virtual PC with Windows XP, if Chinese font is needed, ...
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UTF-8 File is not showing Chinese characters in Excel
I am creating a CSV file with UTF-8 encoding.
It displays the Chinese characters properly if I open it using Notepad++.
It displays the Chinese characters properly if I open it using Notepad.
But, ...
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How do I make my Mac Air running Lion recognize Chinese characters in Excel?
I open an Excel document with Chinese characters and see the following.
How do I make my Mac Air running Lion recognize Chinese characters in Excel?
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Language bar missing on Windows 10
I have Windows 10 & I am the only user. It's a Surface Pro 3 if that helps.
One day out of the blue, my language bar disappeared. I've tried pretty much everything short of formatting my PC.
I'...
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How to switch between normal and "full width" ASCII with Microsoft Pinyin IME?
I've installed a couple of Input Method Editors (IMEs) while trying to learn some Chinese.
Clicking the shift key on its own normally changes between Chinese input and English / ASCII input.
But ...
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In Linux, how to unzip RAR archive containing files with Chinese file names?
How to unrar a RAR archive containing files with Chinese file names?
When I try to do it in Ubuntu 11.10 using the default program Archive Manager, it complains it can't do with the Chinese file name....
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Keyboard Layout Creation in Ubuntu 12.04
Main question: how to make custom key mappings / keyboard layouts in Ubuntu 12.04
In English I type in Dvorak.
I need to type Hebrew sometimes so in Windows7 I made a custom layout Hebrew-phonetic ...
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Read chinese document in Cantonese instead of Mandarin in Microsoft Word?
Before July 2022, the Microsoft word "Read Aloud" function will read all "Chinese Hong Kong SAR" documents in Cantonese. However, after July 2022, all documents in "Chinese ...
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How to completely disable the English mode in Chinese pinyin input?
In the Windows Chinese pinyin input, there are two modes - English and Chinese. These can be toggled by clicking the icon in the taskbar, or by pressing Shift (default). However, I found that if I ...
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Telegram message search issue with East Asian languages
It is a known issue that Telegram message search does not work correctly with East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) or any language that does not use spaces to separate words (see here, ...
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How to enter Chinese character U+6C41 with Windows input?
Character U+6C41 looks like
or
and spelled as zhī.
But when I am entering zhi in Windows, then nothing similar appears:
Can I hint Windows somehow about tone or something?
UPDATE
The question is ...
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How to get CJK Unicode characters from a PDF that uses supplementary private use characters?
I have several PDF documents (such as this one) that appear to be written using standard Chinese ideograms, but when I extract the text, it turns out that it's encoded using characters from the ...
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Chinese simplified keyboard stops working randomly
I use the ctrl+space hotkey to switch between english/chinese when writing documents. The chinese keyboard stops working randomly, however. I can see CH selected in the language bar, but typing in ...
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Character String Conversion using Python
Hi I have a website that is in Traditional Chinese and when I check the site statistics it tell me that the search term for the website is å%8f°å%8d%97 親å%90é¤%90廳 which obviously makes no sense ...
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Setting up Zhuyin input keyboard
I type up a lot of Chinese characters, and am quite used to typing in Pinyin.
However, I'd like to teach my students, who were initially taught using Zhuyin, to use Pinyin, since Pinyin usage is far ...
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Where does Chinese Windows 7 get its Chinese font names?
How does Windows 7 map Chinese .TTF font files into the native Chinese font name? If no such info is in the actual TrueType font file?
For example: Chinese version of Windows 7 contains msyh.ttf file ...
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How to decode this seemingly GBK-encoded string?
I have a .eml email file containing a MS-Word attachment:
------=_Part_239376_662463351.1415605722579
Content-Type: application/msword;
name="=?GBK?B?1cK5scf4s8e53L7WudjT2s34wufT38fp0MXPoteo?=
=?...
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Problems displaying Chinese characters in some apps
I've recently installed Windows 8 on my laptop. I can display and copy/paste chinese characters fine in a web browser (e.g. textbox control) or in MS word, but in notepad or in the IE address bar they ...
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Why do Chinese filenames displays as boxes in Windows 7?
I'm running Windows 7 Professional (UK), and trying to get filenames containing Chinese characters to display correctly in Explorer.
I can create Chinese filenames in explorer by pasting text from a ...
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How to install east asian languages fonts in Windows 7?
Back in Windows XP we had an option to install those fonts. How to do so in the newest version of Windows?
Chinese characters aren't rendered in my notepad nor in setup applications.
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How do I find what font Chrome is using to display non-latin script?
I'm doing some coding that involves displaying Chinese characters as images, and observed that the font I'm using for coding (simsun) does not display a lot of the characters that my browser displays ...
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Chrome extensions and popups displaying chinese text
I just noticed today a weird problem related to Chrome, and it's present in both Mac Chrome and Windows (both XP and 7) as I've been able to see. Sometime this morning my extensions stopped ...
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Are there hotkeys to cycle left and right through the list of candidates in the Windows 7 Pinyin Chinese IME?
I'm using the standard Simplified Chinese Pinyin IME (Input Method Editor) on Windows 7.1
You type in Pinyin (standard Romanization of Chinese) and a small window shows you a selection of candidate ...
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How to import (and view correctly) Chinese UTF-8 encoded CSV file with Excel 2011 on Mac OS X
I have a CSV file which I can open and view the column with Chinese letters normally with TextMate.
However, when I try to import this file into Excel 2011, the field comes with unreadable fonts. ...
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How to Make Scite Display Chinese
Basically not just chinese characters.
I want scite to be able to display anything, japanese, korean, chinese. Anything. I can display that with notepad. Why I can't display that with scite?
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How to display Chinese/Korean/Japanese characters in Skype?
All the characters become squares in Skype.
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How to make Windows 10 input suggestions panel dark?
I use Microsoft Pinyin to input Chinese
Although my system theme is set to dark, my pinyin IME is light
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In Sublime Text 3, how to disable the wrapping box around pinyin when typing Chinese?
I would like to disable the white box wrapping the pinyin "kuang'kuang," but I don't know how to do it.
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Why do my Ubuntu 12 and 14 Bittorrent seeds get so many downloads from Taiwan? [closed]
I will often open my Transmission control panel and see that old Ubuntu ISO files that I never removed from seeding are being downloaded. And it is usually from somewhere in Taiwan. These are the old ...
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Applescript - Customize text-to-speech pronunciation of Chinese characters
I would like to change the default pronunciation of certain Chinese characters and phrases using Applescript. This would be an improvisation of the suggestion given by @JRobert over here.
The basic ...
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Spaces between equations and Chinese characters in Microsoft Word
I am using Microsoft Word 2007. If I insert an equation by pressing Alt+= key inside some Chinese document, there will be no space between the equation and Chinese characters. This looks too crowded（...
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