This window provides a friendly and extensible input method management tool for all Chinese customer., A new input method auxiliary window supports the following new functions and utilities:
Input method switching
Chinese full-width/half-width character mode switching
Chinese/English punctuation mode switching
Input method properties setting
Input method selection
Lookup tables for GB2312/GBK/GB18030/CNS11643/Big5/HKSCS/Unicode character sets
Virtual keyboard
For more detailed information, please see the Simplified Chinese User's Guide and the Traditional Chinese User's Guide.
The input method auxiliary windows supports all UTF-8 locales and the following Chinese locales:
zh/zh_CN.EUC
zh.GBK/zh_CN.GBK
zh.UTF-8/zh_CN.UTF-8
zh_TW/zh_TW.EUC
zh_TW.BIG5
zh_TW.UTF-8
zh_HK.BIG5HK
zh_HK.UTF-8
zh_CN.GB18030
Two kinds of input methods are supported:
Methods based on a code table such as CangJie
Methods developed by a vendor (such as NewPinYin or NeiMa)
The interface model for auxiliary window support is shown in the following figure.