Linux和拼音

[jannetuukkanen]

这是我的第一中文论坛信.我希望你们明白我写什么

跟Linux和Gnome怎么样输入拼音? 打字汉子简易可是不可能打字罗马字母和音调字一起

第二问题 : 我需要中文姓名. 我性Tuukkanen叫Janne(男人).你们有好意思? 只有网里用

And because the text above was probably only an awful parody of Chinese language, here's some bad old English:

Anyone knows how to type pinyin tone markers in Linux? I'm using Gnome window manager and with IIIMF hanzi is not a problem, but i18n documentation is far from clear and I haven't yet figured out simple way to type pinyin. In this case number notation is not an option.

Secondly I wanted Chinese version of my name. Surname is Tuukkanen and first name Janne. Yes I'm a male and need the name only for the net, nothing official. Any brilliant ideas?

Ok. Here we go, my first ever (ok, partially so) publicly posted piece of Zhongwen.

JanneT

[Nings]

送你个中文名字吧：唐福远

另外的问题不甚了了，我英文有限。

[jannetuukkanen]

谢谢你!

"唐福远"好看好念和好意思我要用这个名字

[trevelyan]

Hi Janne,

Is your question about getting fonts to work (is there a tonal pinyin font in Linux?) or about conversion tools (is there a way to convert Chinese text to readable pinyin?)

What exactly do you need to do?

[gato]

Janne, take a look at two pages

http://seba.studentenweb.org/thesis/linux.php

http://blogs.mit.edu/wenyang

You'll need to install some Chinese fonts first.

Emacs at least as of version 21.x has pinyin GB input method (chinese-py-punct) builtin with its LEIM package. I've used the Windows build. It seems to have a sizeable phrase database and can guess the right characters pretty well. I haven't been as successful with its traditional script counterpart, 'chinese-py-b5. It requires me to input a tone mark (1-5) whereas the GB version doesn't.

[imron]

moi..

If you only need to write a couple of pinyin words at a time, then probably the easiest way is to use an online conversion tool like:

http://pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html

that will convert tone numbers to tone marks.

This will also give you a range of different output methods to suit your needs, and for example the ability of your font to deal with combining characters.

So long as you already have unicode fonts on your machine, I can't imagine that you would run into any problems on that front.