geek_frappa Posted December 11, 2004 at 11:29 PM Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 at 11:29 PM would anybody use an online IME? that allowed you to enter chinese characters without installing IME on your PC? if not, let me know, so i can stop working on this... otherwise, let me know what you might want to see in such a program... let's see if this works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted December 11, 2004 at 11:44 PM Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 at 11:44 PM sneak preview, as usual, available to forum visitors... http://primezero.com/amerigo/ also, as usual, having problem with some of the characters... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alhazred Posted December 12, 2004 at 02:54 PM Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 at 02:54 PM If you could get it to work with Firefox, that would be great indeed. Edit: spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beirne Posted December 12, 2004 at 05:01 PM Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 at 05:01 PM If you could get it to work with Firefox, that would be great indeed. It works ok for me on Firefox on Linux. I don't always get the expected characters, though. "zi xing che" gave me the first two characters but not the 车. would anybody use an online IME? that allowed you to enter chinese characters without installing IME on your PC? I may use it from time to time. I finally got an IME going in Linux, but I don't normally have it running because the setup gives me ugly fonts. I have looked for something like this before. Zhongwen.com would be great except the characters are images. I'm not going to say that I'll use it every day, but I may from time to time for convenience, mainly for posts to the forums here. I actually used it in this message to get the 车 character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted December 14, 2004 at 03:22 PM Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 at 03:22 PM there is a lot of room for improvement, especially with encoding normalization in CEDICT. all 214 radicals are now available for testing.... http://www.primezero.com/amerigo/test.php?q=78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darsu Posted December 14, 2004 at 04:07 PM Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 at 04:07 PM Beirne wrote: I finally got an IME going in Linux, but I don't normally have it running because the setup gives me ugly fonts. Which IME is this? I've been on the lookout for one for Linux since I started teaching myself the language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted December 14, 2004 at 10:55 PM Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 at 10:55 PM uh oh... %E8%BE%9C <----- 龜 %E8%BE%9C <----- 辜 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beirne Posted December 14, 2004 at 11:11 PM Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 at 11:11 PM Which IME is this? I've been on the lookout for one for Linux since I started teaching myself the language. I use Debian Linux and followed the directions at http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~huyihuyi/debian3.html. If the page doesn't come up it is cached on Google at http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:CwCiA84ryEkJ:sps.nus.edu.sg/~huyihuyi/debian3.html+debian+chinese+mozilla&hl=en, There are several other input method programs, but that one has worked well enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alhazred Posted December 15, 2004 at 03:06 PM Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 at 03:06 PM I expected a website where you would type pinyin and get the character, just as Microsoft's IME but online. Either I missed something or you have to pick the characters you need one at a time. This is very tedious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geek_frappa Posted December 15, 2004 at 03:23 PM Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 at 03:23 PM you make a good point. i was going to combine character selector and pinyin input together, but you make a very good point... Chinese Radical Index should be separate from the Chinese IME. initially, the plan was to allow users to type and the character selection decreased based on input ... :-) however, i think the IME should be pinyin based and should return entries more like Google Suggest. http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en thanks for your feedback Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted December 15, 2004 at 04:04 PM Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 at 04:04 PM This would be a really cool thing to have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
889 Posted January 6, 2005 at 10:26 AM Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 at 10:26 AM Google's Chinese site at http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ makes for a quick-and-dirty IME. Just type zixingche and you'll get back 自行车. Details here: http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/help/basics.html#pinyin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted January 10, 2005 at 01:51 PM Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 at 01:51 PM Out of curiosity and interest, I hacked up a proof of concept applet last night. Works with a limited subset of words (only those beginning with "a"). http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~david/applet.html http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~david/ime.JPG Issues: I'm sitting on a Chinese OS so it works perfectly for me but is also completely useless. The real question is whether it works on non-Chinese systems. If not, what changes need to be made to get it to display Chinese characters on systems with the proper fonts installed. I'm no Java expert, and don't even have a non-Chinese copy of Windows to test things on, so am at the end of what I can do. If Java CAN display Chinese characters on non-Chinese OSes though, it should be easy to produce something relatively quickly, and link it to something like pzdict. Incidentally, the applet above was made using the latest version of Java, so if you don't see anything you probably need to update at http://www.java.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluepoppy Posted January 15, 2005 at 03:00 PM Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 at 03:00 PM how about this? http://chinese.cari.com.my/ime/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted February 10, 2005 at 06:37 PM Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 at 06:37 PM geek_frappa...This is a GREAT idea! how's that Linux distro that's being developed by people from China, Korea, and Japan coming? I haven't seen any activity on that thread in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted February 15, 2005 at 10:54 PM Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 at 10:54 PM Geek_frappa, is THIS that Linux distro you were talking about??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browny Posted February 16, 2005 at 01:27 AM Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 at 01:27 AM an online IME is a good idea! but i had a look at your site greek-frappa, and to be honest, i didn't see anything resembling an input method~just a table of f**king radicals and a few thousand characters i've never seen before! Why don't you just run queries through http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/ like 889 suggested? Like this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=zh-CN&q=niweishenmebushuohua&lr= All you have to do is open the url in ur code, and then find the chinese in the HTML contents! That's what I'm going to do on my site -- why develop software that's already freely available on the net? crazy if u ask me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmck Posted February 16, 2005 at 04:05 PM Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 at 04:05 PM I enter my chinese characters using a Word macro see: http://www.mandarintools.com/wordinput.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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