Unicode input methods

[yixiazi]

Hello,

I am new to this forum, and to the world of Unicode (UTF-. I am creating a website of my own and am interested to do it in Unicode. I am especially interested, because I can use pinyin along-side the characters for educational purposes without as much trouble as other encodings. Could someone give me a little advice on what software, tools, input methods there are for entering Unicode Chinese characters?

This seems like a really great forum by the way.

Thanks,

-Brian

[gato]

For Chinese input on Windows, you can use the builtin Microsoft Global IME (Input Method Editor). See http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/asianlanguageinstallation_XP.html and

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/3665-problems-with-chinese-ime-for-winxp

The NJStar Communicator is also good: http://njstar.com/communicator/

The demo version used to allow you to use it indefinitely. I'm not sure if the current version still does.

For editor, you can use WordPad and save your files as Unicode texts. More options are described on this page: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors.html

I've used BabelPad, UniRed, Dreamweaver, and UltraEdit. The first two are free and relatively simple.

[yixiazi]

Thank you very much. I am trying NJStar right now. Seems to be a very nice product.

-Brian

[wix]

You can do it in Notepad. Just select UTF-8 on the encoding menu. This works in Windows XP. I am not sure about earlier versions of Windows though.