Subject: RE: Input Chinese Punctuations in ETen

From: Huang Chih-Hsien <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:27:22 WST

Hi:

Although Cen Huang <[email-masked]> has shared three methods with
all of us, I guess there is another one, at least, I prefer.

Basically, under BIG-5 system, Chinese characters are encoded by 2 bytes,
but English symbols are always 1 byte.  For compatiable reasons, ETen do
offer two ETen English modes, semi-sharp(Ban4 Xing2), full-sharp(Quan2
Xing2).  In semi-sharp mode, English symbols are 1 byte; however, in
full-sharp, English symbols are also 2 bytes, so it can be trusted as
Chinese punctuations.  (actually, they are the same.)

Nevertheless, there are some exceptions, say, the Chinese period, the
Chinese quotation marks.  If you have a menu of ETen, check a function
called IDIOMS(Pian4 Yu3).  It offers a quick solution for these Chinese
punctuations as well as some other special characters, say, table-drawing
characters.  IDIOMS can be invoked by Alt-Shift-*, and re-defined by
Ctrl-Shift-*.  '*' here stands for A-Z, F1-F10.  For example, when you
hit Alt-Shift-O together, you will see a Chinese period appearing in your
screen.

Here is a list of all of them.  (This table is uuencoded.  Please remove
everything before 'begin' line.)

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