Chinese Input Utility (Supporting the ISO 10646 Standard, including
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1. key then use the Space key to navigate until the required character 15 shown PE WordPad 2cPE WordPad BRE AE WAO PAD EAO HAH BRE ARE WAO HAD teh HAH Del amp l Ming for ISO10646 ExtB gt gt CeAIDT ESTE LEE S ECE ET EJE 44 stroke txt ie 4 stroke txt Unicode code of 4E00 Unicode code of E 244D3 4 5 4 Unicode Internal Code Step 1 Step 2 Switch to Unicode Internal Code input method Press 4 E 0 0 and Space keys then the Chinese character will be input An example for a Chinese character in Extension B 15 2 0 F 2 D and Space keys BRO HE RA BAO MAG BRO HE RAM MAD BAO BAG 64 Cel 64 amp o amp EET v cum Ming for ISO10646 ExtB 122 8 unicode txt id unicode txt Unicode code of 4E00 Unicode code of 20F2D Note on Unicode Internal Code The Unicode Internal Code input method only accepts 4 or 5 hexadecimal digits for Unicode inputs valid hexadecimal digits are 0 to 9 and A to UN INSTALLATION Caution After un installation of Chinese Input Utility the Chinese font Ming for ISO10646 ExtB will also be un installed For proper display of Chinese characters of Extension B in programs or documents you may need to install Chinese fonts that are supporting ISO 10646 2003 and configure2. Language and Regional Options Click Regional and Language Options and Languages Click Details button and then Language Bar Enable Show additional language bar icons in the taskbar then download and install HKSCS support software that is provided by the Platforms at http www microsoft com hk hkscs For information Chinese Input Utility can work with the following ISO IEC 10646 2003 enabled application software Mozilla 1 5 Internet Explore 6 0 and Microsoft Office XP Regarding the usage of the Platforms and application software we recommend users to take reference to the manuals or information provided by the corresponding software vendors and to browse related information posted on vendors corresponding web sites 3 1 SM INSTALLATION Before you start installation please make sure again that your system has met the Platform s requirements as specified in Chapter 2 System Requirements of this manual DOWNLOAD CHINESE INPUT UTILITY SOFTWARE ISO10646IME EXE is the installation program of this Chinese Input Utility Please download the ISO10646IME EXE to your system by following the instructions in the Government s Digital 21 web site http www info gov hk digital2 1 eng hkscs download html INSTALLATION PROCEDURES Step 1 Start Installation Please exit all application software and ensure that the Platforms are installed on drive Double click the ISO
3. 10646IME EXE to start installation of the Chinese Input m And the following s screen will be displayed 46 ISO 10646 BAAR Chinese Input Utility supporting the ISO 10646 Standard including Extension B ARTE ATL RE rights reserved No part af this software may repreduced in any form Tia Tg BE GE UA BOAT TT Si HP dE MA ER M ZEE 7 Office of the Government Chief Information Officer The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region July 2004 Then follow the instructions of the installation program Step 2 Please wait a moment as the installation program will decompress un zip and copy the Chinese Input Utility and its related files to your system Step 3 Restart computer When the installation ends click the Finish button and restart your computer to complete the installation 4 1 USING THE CHINESE INPUT UTILITY The Chinese Input Utility provides 4 input methods Changjei Quick Stroke Count and Unicode Internal Code for users to input Chinese characters to application software that support ISO IEC 10646 2003 The HKSCS characters coded in Extenion B of ISO IEC 10646 2003 are distinguished in blue in the candidate list of characters of this Chinese Input Utility software INPUTTING CHINESE CHARACTERS Step 1 Step 2 step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Launch an application software that supports Unicode e g WordPad bundl
4. 646 2003 The font name 15 Ming for ISO 10646 ExtB This font file requires the font MingLiU and MingLiU HKSCS that are provided by the platforms Please refer to Chapter 2 of this manual for the requirements on software platforms Un installation program For un installation of the Chinese Input Utility and UNINSTALL EXE related files This user manual provides instructions for installing and using this Chinese Input Utility and other related information 2 1 22 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE Equivalent to Pentium HI 300 megahertz MHz processor or above 256 megabytes MB of RAM or more 50 MB of available disk space and A Display resolution with 800x600 or above SOFIWARE PLATFORM This Chinese Input Utility runs on Chinese or English Windows XP the Platforms Please install additional software and setup configuration according to the following information Chinese Windows XP J download and install HKSCS support software that is provided by the Platforms at http www microsoft com hk hkscs English Windows XP install East Asian languages Click Start Control Panel Date Time Language and Regional Options Click Regional and Language Options and Languages Check Install files for East Asian languages and then click Apply button configure desktop to show Chinese input method icon Click Start Control Panel Date Time
5. Chinese Input Utility Supporting the ISO 10646 Standard including Extension B on Windows XP platforms User Manual Version 1 1 October 2004 Office of the Government Chief Information Officer The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region All rights reserved No part of this document may be reproduced in any form TABLE OF CONTENTS I INTITRODUK GCTIQN reechen oaao a aO AEO EEE 1 R ws sy 610 ele WB E E A E EE E He 12 OVERVIEW OF THECHINESE INPUT UTILITY bates 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 5i ccsececesacsaseteceessasiatietactactoatessueasccwaesvetbassesegionseadbedueesis eaderapcouessacvansaseoscusasencceseaes 3 VN ACARD WWE Bond E ec hee el 3 PAPA AOF TMA Pr se Re 3 SINS TAU A TION raean O e a E N a 4 31 DOWNLOAD CHINESE INPUT UTILITY SOFTWARE eene nennen nennen serene esee see seo 4 32 INSTAL ATON PROCEDUNR S ethos teo rope bea beet ben bah novio deba Ebrei bsec do etia Poeti done 4 4 USING THE CHINESE INPUT UTILITY s eiecescicstb cesseeeee Va o sess vet one od cei eene e eoa plo vec vache avis hus eee aee eee uo Vea Cub Ho Co eae 5 Zl INPUT INOC AINESE CITARAGCTERS du dons 5 4 2 SWITCHING INPUT METHODS IN CHINESE INPUT UTILITY eene nnnm 6 AS INPOHTEUINGIADPEENBETZAND NUM resa toegeu 6 44 DOGOLE
6. OFFCHINESEINPUT UTILITY dete dune ooa 6 Z5 EXAMPLESOFUSINGCHINESEINPUT UTILITY 7 2 maus ate eC Re LM m LM Dd M E E C Z AI DU CW cR cC Z AOOO COUN arrea EE dod TtmcodedHeornal oleis a te eben E dL au Len Rte Mea T 8 5 O Ve s Vue Eae 9 6 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUES TIONS DN ER ERE SE SUR RE SE NER 10 1 1 INTRODUCTION The release of ISO IEC 10646 2 2001 international coding standard is a major enrichment of the ISO 10646 standard where the adoption of ISO 10646 is the Government s IT strategy on common Chinese language interface As a measure to further facilitate the adoption of the common Chinese language interface the Government provides this software Chinese Input Utility Supporting the ISO 10646 Standard including Extension B Referred as Chinese Input Utility hereinafter Making the Chinese Input Utility available to public users will meet Government s objective of increasing the adoption of the common Chinese language interface in wider community This in turn will facilitate the development of IT products supporting the ISO 10646 standard and the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set HKSCS 2001 Note 1 The Chinese Input Utility includes more than 1 600 characters of the HKSCS 2001 that are allocated in the Extens
7. and Wordpad 5 1 bundled on Windows XP Why are some HKSCS characters displayed as blank Prior to the installation of this Chinese Input Utility it 15 required to download and install HKSCS support software that 15 available at http www microsoft com hk hkscs Please make sure again that your platform has met the requirements as specified in Chapter 2 of this manual Why are some characters displayed as blank or black squares in some application software The application software may not support characters under the Extension B of ISO IEC 10646 2003 Regarding the technical information of document compatibility issues among different version of software products users are recommended to inquiry the corresponding software vendors For description of ISO 10646 and Extension B please visit the website at http www info gov hk digital2 1 eng structure intro_iso html lt END gt 10
8. ed the Platforms For English Platform users click the EN icon of language bar then select to switch to Chinese input method Then select A T E ISO 10646 Ext B button EN icon v LE 150 10646 Ext Chinese Traditional Wew Phonetic TEL ISO 10646 Ext B button For Chinese Platform users press Ctrl Space keys to activate the Chinese input method then press Ctrl Shift key until the following status bar is shown P zd changjei txt Changjei is the default Chinese input method Type the input code s of the Changjei code of a Chinese character and then press the Space key Press ESC key to cancel the input code s or press Backspace key to delete the input code just keyed in If only one Chinese character corresponds to that input code s then the Chinese character will be automatically input If more than one Chinese character correspond to that input code s use numeric keys 1 9 on the upper part of the keyboard to select the character to be input If all the characters cannot be displayed in one page please press Page Up and Page Down keys to show the previous and next page of Chinese characters respectively 4 2 4 3 4 4 SWITCHING INPUT METHODS IN CHINESE INPUT UTILITY Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 If Chinese Input Utility is not yet activated press Ctrl Space keys to activa
9. ified Changjei codes will be input An example for a Chinese character in Extension B 1s J J Y T and Space keys B BRO RHE RAO MAD BAO RAGA BRE HE RAO HAD BAO BAG Oe 64 Dci 3 was e ao wm 0 244 244 changiei t Unicode code of 6676 Unicode code of 282E2 Quick Step 1 Switch to Quick input method Step 2 Press A and A keys then Chinese Input Utility will show all the characters with the specified Quick input codes Press 1 key on the upper part of the keyboard to input the first character into the application software An example for a Chinese character in Extension 15 J and keys BRE HE RAW HAD 182000 BAG BRE RHE RAO MAD 18000 HAU Dci 66 46 17388988 2 vi CHI Ming for ISO10646 ExtB 1 1 7 22 3 88 id 5 Bf 6 ii 7 8 9 amp tl quick txt P quick tet Unicode code of E 660C Unicode code of Hy 282E2 453 Stroke Count Step 1 Step 2 Switch to Stroke Count input method Press 1 on the upper part of the keyboard and Space keys and then the Chinese Input Utility will show all characters with one stroke Press the numeric key 2 on the upper part of the keyboard to input the character An example for a Chinese character in Extension B is 2 and 3
10. ion B of ISO 10646 standard This Chinese Input Utility supports the ISO IEC 10646 2003 Note 2 and HKSCS 2001 to let users input Chinese characters into Unicode compliant application software Note 3 For the further information of ISO 10646 Extension B and HKSCS 2001 please visit the Digital 21 website at the following URL http www info gov hk digital2 1 eng structure intro_iso html BACKGROUND As Chinese 1s the language used by most people in Hong Kong the development of a common electronic interface for users who prefer to use Chinese in electronic communication is very important The major problems of electronic communication conducted in Chinese are the existence of different coding standards and insufficient characters in some Chinese character sets used on computers Note 1 The HKSCS 2001 15 the updated version of the HKSCS released in 1999 The HKSCS 2001 contains 4 818 Chinese characters that are specific to the Hong Kong environment and that are used by the public and the Government in electronic communication and data exchange conducted in Chinese Note2 ISO IEC 10646 2003 1s the result of the merger of the ISO IEC 10646 1 2000 and ISO IEC 10646 2 2001 The ideographic characters in the ISO IEC 10646 2003 are the same as those in the ISO TEC 10646 1 2000 cum ISO IEC 10646 2 2001 Note3 In 1991 the International Organization for Standardization and the Unicode Consortium agreed to synchronize the ISO 10646 standard a
11. nd Unicode The characters and code points included in the ISO 10646 and Unicode are identical Therefore products supporting Unicode also support the ISO 10646 standard 1 2 Under Digital 21 IT Strategy Government has developed open and common Chinese language interface for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The objective is to address the above problems so as to achieve more accurate electronic communication conducted in Chinese A pivotal element of the open and common Chinese language interface is the adoption of the ISO 10646 coding standard which is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization ISO for the handling of characters in electronic data storage and exchange The ISO 10646 standard embraces characters used in major languages in the world including traditional and simplified Chinese characters The Government has been actively participating in the development of the ISO 10646 standard OVERVIEW OF THE CHINESE INPUT UTILITY Components Description Installation program For the installation of the Chinese Input Utility ISO10646IME EXE Chinese Input Utility To input characters into Unicode compliant application ISO10646 IME software Input method tables Input method tables for Changjei Quick and Stroke CHANGJEI TXT Count QUICK TXT and STROKE TXT Font file A font file containing HKSCS 2001 characters coded in MINGEXTB TTF ISO IEC 10
12. te it For details please refer to Step 2 of Section 4 1 To switch among the Chinese input methods provided by the Chinese Input Utility move the mouse pointer over the leftmost icon right click the mouse button and select Input Method 1 ANED Bel Prat TEN Then a window will appear as follows Select one of the Chinese input methods Changjei Quick Stroke and Unicode Then click open button to switch to the selected input method Choose an Input Method 4 y SRA E qui Am LJ SOC 48 4 HAES Hate LAS 18 4 QD M BOO T8 3c EST Text Files txt M HGR Click input area of the application software and then continue to input Chinese characters INPUTTING ALPHABET AND NUMBER Step 1 Step 2 Press the Ctrl Space keys to toggle off the Chinese Input Utility or use the mouse to click the leftmost icons of the status bar to switch to the followings A 2 Click the input area of the application software and then continue to input alphabet or number TOGGLE OFF CHINESE INPUT UTILITY Press the Ctrl Space keys to toggle off or quit Chinese Input Utility 4 5 4 5 1 4 5 2 EXAMPLES OF USING CHINESE INPUT UTILITY Changjei Step 1 Switch to Changjei input method Step 2 Press A and Space keys then the Chinese character with the spec
13. the programs documents to use those fonts Step 1 Close Chinese Input Utility Step 2 The un installation program of this Chinese Input Utility is uninstall exe which is installed to C Program FilesISO10646IME by default Step 3 Double click uninstall exe and follow the instructions Step 4 Reboot the computer to make the un installation effective 6 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS l What is the difference between this Chinese Input Utility and the software ISO 10646 version of HKSCS 2001 reference font and input software for ISO 10646 compliant applications running on English or Chinese Windows 98 ME NT4 2000 the Previous Version The Previous Version supports ISO IEC 10646 1 2000 while this Chinese Input Utility supports HKSCS characters coded in ISO IEC 10646 2003 In this Chinese Input Utility software the HKSCS characters coded in Extension B of ISO IEC 10646 2003 will be distinguished in blue in the candidate list of characters I have successfully installed the Chinese Input Utility How to use it On Chinese version of Windows XP users can press Ctrl Space keys and then press Ctrl Shift key until ff TL ISO 10646 Ext is selected Please refer to Chapter 4 of this manual for details Which application software support ISO IEC 10646 2003 Examples of application software are including but not limited to Mozilla 1 5 Internet Explorer 6 0 Microsoft Office XP
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