Posted by Luigi Donatello Asero on 05/27/06 17:14

"ironcorona" <iron.corona@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:4477cadc$1@quokka.wn.com.au...
> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> > "ironcorona" <iron.corona@gmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:4477bc8f@quokka.wn.com.au...
> >> Luigi Donatello Asero wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, so far I have been able to display Russian and Chinese in
> >>> UTF-16.
> >> How come you're using UTF-16? Russian and Chinese can both be encoded
> >> in UTF-8.
> >
> > Does that work on Wordpad and Notepad? Or perhaps is the server not
properly
> > configured for the use of Unicode?
>
> No, no, I was asking a question. Since UTF-8 is the de facto standard
> on the net I was just wondering why you were choosing UTF-16

I tried to use UTF-8 but I could not...
Does php or the server need to be configured for UTF-8?

> >> Though I would like to ask; how many Chinese symbols are there?
> > Where?
>
> In the world. UTF can only support so many characters. I know that
> there are thousands of Chinese characters out there and was just
> wondering if they were all in UTF-8?
I am not sure, but I think that I had installed this
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/install.mspx

> >> Can you
> >> encode them *all* in UTF-8? Also [and wildly off topic] how do you
make
> >> up new [written] words in Chinese?
> >
> > What do you mean by "new [written] words in Chinese"?
>
> Well if I wanted to make up a new word in English, lets say blog for the
> moment. I hear how it sounds and then use the English alphabet
> characters that represent that sound [taking into account, obviously,
> historical precedent on how certain words are spelled etc]. Since each
> Chinese word needs a new character I was wondering what the system was
> for creating new written words.

I guess that Chinese characters are based on the combination of several
signs.
There are basic signs (214 called "Radikale" in German in the book "Die
chinesische Schrift" - published by Assimil) on which structurally more
complicated ones are based.
So, graphically, you might be better off to learn to write the basic signs
in order to
write more complicated ones.

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Luigi Donatello Asero
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