Simplified Chinese Solaris User's Guide

Typing English_Chinese Text

This section describes how to create English_Chinese text.

The following figure shows how to use this input method to type the character representing the Engilsh word "world". The word requires five keystrokes. Type them and select the text as follows:

  1. Type the five keystrokes world.

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  2. Type 3 to select the corresponding Chinese phrase in the lookup choice list.

    Your choice is substituted for the English string in the preedit area.

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  1. Wild characters "*"or "?" can be used to search in the dictionary," * " stands for one or several letters, and ? represents only one letter. For example, to search all English words which end with lution, you can input "*lution" and the lookup choice window appears as below.

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    Or to search all English words which begin with "c", and only three letters, you can input "c??", the lookup choice window appears as below:

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