Traditional Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Array Input Mode

In the array input mode, 260 radicals that compose Chinese characters are assigned to the keys in ten columns of three rows in the array virtual keyboard. To use the array input mode effectively, you need to memorize only ten basic keystrokes. All radicals are naturally allocated on the keyboard by the basic keystrokes.

How to Type Array Text

  1. Select the Array input mode.

    Follow the steps in the procedure How to Select an Input Method to select the input mode.

    Array appears in the status window.

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  2. Type the x key and press the spacebar.

    The array input converter finds several matching characters that display in a lookup choice window.

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  3. Type the 1 key to commit the first character.

    The radicals are converted and the corresponding character appears.

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