 Thomas
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Using East Asian languages in Asksam 5
Posted: 19 Oct 2004 01:32 PM |
Hi all,
I have a problem with writing East Asian scripts in Asksam 5.12. I am using Windows XP professional and the Microsoft Pinyin IME 2003 to enter Chinese/Japanese etc. characters in a text. The problem is: When I try to enter characters in Asksam, a bar opens and shows a selection of characters from which I can choose (so far, that's all correct). The characters, however, are not directly inserted into the text (which would be the usual way), but into a small window with a green arrow saying "Finalize the string". When I then press "Enter" the programm displays one question mark for each character chosen. Of course, I have selected a Chinese font first.
I have used previous versions of Asksam in combination with Twinbridge to write Chinese and it worked well. What am I doing wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Best
Thomas Jansen
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arkush
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Re: Using East Asian languages in Asksam 5
Posted: 17 Dec 2004 07:08 PM |
You can't use the Microsoft IME with Asksam because Asksam does not support unicode characters.
For CJ in asksam you have to use Twinbridge -- but you'll need a recent version of TB that supports XP! It does work -- I use it. The disadvantage is that the coding is different from (incompatible with) unicode which presumably eventually we'll all be using.
So the real question is, will AS 6 support unicode? Nothing I have seen suggests they will -- they seem little interested in what may be thought of as basic wordprocessing functions. I will wait and see, but if they don't I will start looking for alternatives (after over 15 years using AS). |
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ben
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Re: Using East Asian languages in Asksam 5
Posted: 27 Dec 2004 04:05 PM |
| Sorry, but there are no plans to include Unicode support in the next version of askSam. |
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