Hanzi unicode

xiao_liang

I loooooooooooooove cojak.org

Not sure what you mean about the little square? Do you mean underneath the characters in a line at the top of the page? I think that's just the unicode identifier.

user76423

"Little squares with numbers and letters [4 or 6 in total]" just tell you that the font does not know how to render this Unicode character.

If you want to see the picture of the character, just use

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=....

bababardwan

I loooooooooooooove cojak.org

为什么？你以前用了？Have you used it before [and if so for what purpose?] ,or have you just checked it out since I posted the link?...and what do you love about it?

Not sure what you mean about the little square?

As hape has correctly stated below your post,when one is on a computer that can't display hanzi [because it hasn't been set up to do so ] it instead displays these little squares with numbers and letters inside them for every character.

I'm not sure I've ever spotted/know what you mean by:

underneath the characters in a line at the top of the page

bababardwan

Thanks heaps for the link hape. I have just entered some example codes in and it correctly identified the character,however I'm currently on my computer that can display hanzi.I can't wait to try it out on a computer that can't display hanzi.It will be slow and laborious entering the data for one character at a time[speaking of which,you don't happen to know which order the numbers in the little square are in....my guess...just as you'd read..left to right and top to bottom] but better than nothing.A shame there isn't a programme that'll just convert the lot.I'm pretty sure a long time ago someone did recommend such a programme but it never worked unfortunately.

xiao_liang

Oh man, I replied to this when the messages had disappeared, and now they've reappeared my new reply has disappeared!! lol - can't win! :p

xiao_liang

Okay, anyway. Maybe it'll show up and you'll have the reply twice :-)

I knew and used cojak.org before. It's very useful for me to see examples of each character in compound words and common phrases. I'm learning characters individually, so seeing these helps me fix them in my mind. Also it has a helpful stroke order diagram, and pulls out the radicals for you.

bababardwan

哦，我明白。我以前没看过

go_manly

I don't know if this will be helpful: Type the 4-character unicode into Word and, with the cursor immediately after the last character, hit ctrl-x. The unicode is converted to a character. Repeated use of ctrl-x toggles between the character and unicode. (This is Word 2007 - I don't know if it works on earlier versions.)

bababardwan

Is that on a computer that can't display hanzi?

go_manly

No, I never actually use that feature. So, you can't display Hanzi in Word?

bababardwan

I usually can mate,but there are times when I'm on a computer that can't.I'll give hape's method and your method a shot tomorrow and let you know. Regardless of whether it works or not,thanks for the tip. :)

go_manly

Just one more tip. Some fonts will only display Simplified characters. Others will only display Traditional and unmodified characters. I'm assuming you want Simplified, so chose the SimSun font in word.

bababardwan

SimSun. I'll have to try and remember that.Thanks. The problem with these other computers of course is that they don't have the East Asian language pack installed in the first place.So I think finding a programme to display hanzi in such a scenario will only work if it produces a picture of it in some format.

bababardwan

hape,

I've just tried that link you've given me and it works like a charm...so thanks heaps for delivering.

So that'll help read short phrases of a few characters which will now be very handy :)

Now to find a site that will decode longer passages...that is do several characters at a time by just copying and pasting ..without having to enter the unicode for every character.Any other suggestions anyone?

bababardwan

thanks again for your tip ,but I've just checked and this computer uses open office writer,not Microsoft word.