Input Method Auxiliary Window Support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese

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.

Figure 4–1 Interface Model for Auxiliary Window Support