ZDT: Typing special characters (nü3) - German keyboard

[Qin3wen4]

Hello,

At first a big thankyou to the developer - With ZDT I've finally found an excellent software for learning the Chinese language.

I'm a German using ZDT 0.6.1 with Ubuntu 6.06 (Linux).

When I learn in the flashcard mode and want to type in special characters like ü in "nü3", the software claims that the answer is wrong.

How can type in them "correctly"?

Thank you in advance!

[Paolo]

Hi,

I guess you could input vinstead of ü when using ZDT, just like you do in Wenlin. Thus, when you want to type nü3, I guess you can simply write nv3. Try!

Have fun!

[Jockster]

Hmmm..you didn't tell us how you do it, but I usually ü is substituted by v, so for nü, just type N + V and that should do it

[bogleg]

Actually, it follows the Cedict convention which represents the umlaut with a u followed by a colon. So for your example, you'd type "nu:3".

Chris

[Qin3wen4]

Thank you very much for your responses!

The version with the colon works well.

[rohin]

Hi, just wanted to know how your suppose to enter ǚ in zdt. I've tried entering nu3 and nv3 for the female character (女), but neither seem to work.

[roddy]

Merging question with the answer . . .