Typing in random Unicode code points

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

KJK::Hyperion — Wed, 18 May 2005 19:32:50 GMT

Hmmm, can't see it in Windows 2000. The "Chinese (Traditional)" layout doesn't even appear to be an IME

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Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:33:22 GMT

Cool! With this and http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf I can type Runic in Word 2006!

Jokes aside, this may be a very useful tip for our QA people. Thank you very much.

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 19 May 2005 03:57:48 GMT

On Win2000, when I choose Chinese - Taiwan in the first dropdown, I have "Unicode IME" for Chinese - Traditional in the 2nd.

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Isaac Chen — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:51:47 GMT

How do we type in random Unicode code points in Windows 98?
I know this OS is old, but there are still many using it. And your execelent MSLU makes Unicode Applications possible.

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BobH — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:00:51 GMT

Very cool -- thx for the tip.

A minor issue is that if you use this to input non-Chinese characters (e.g., Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew) in apps that keep track of language info (e.g., Word), all non-Chinese text seems to be identified as English -- not very helpful in a lot of cases. Thinking of workarounds to this lead to the following:

Question: I thought I'd try adding Hebrew input language but use this Unicode layout IME -- but Windows XP doesn't offer this layout for Hebrew (or Arabic or English or probably lots of other languages). Why not?

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:14:38 GMT

I will cover the Language Bar in a special posting all of it own, soon. :-)

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Thu, 19 May 2005 18:16:05 GMT

Regarding win98, I do not really have an answer for there -- not even MSLU really helps there much since almlost every API converts out of Unicode and calls the OS version....

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

KJK::Hyperion — Fri, 20 May 2005 00:55:01 GMT

Ok, it looks like the elusive IME only appears if you choose Chinese as a language. Not an optimal solution :-|

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 20 May 2005 01:09:00 GMT

It may be possible to use an unattend file with intl.cpl to install it under other languages, as described in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289125 (this interface has more flexibility than the Language Bar UI).

When ALT+X seems to be failing...

Sorting It All Out — Mon, 29 May 2006 10:06:56 GMT

I have mentioned the ALT+X mechanism for entering Unicode code points in passing previously, e.g. in...

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Sorting It All Out — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:03:32 GMT

I have previously (like in Typing in random Unicode code points) talked about using the Unicode IME as...

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re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Harold Fuchs — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:28:52 GMT

I'm on Win XP Pro SP2 + all updates. There is no version of Chinese in the list of available languages. What am I doing wrong, please?

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re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:55:29 GMT

Sounds like somethng for the Suggestion Box (link over on the right side)?

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Harold Fuchs — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:36:22 GMT

Well, I found out how to install Chinese on my XP system but, having done so and rebooted the thing simply doesn't work in any application I have: IE7, Wordpad, Outlook Express etc.

Also, how do you hold down the Alt key and type an "E" *without* invoking the current program's Edit menu? (See the examples where the hex value 00E is entered)

Please, is this an April Fool or what?

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:44:30 GMT

Harold -- SUGGESTION BOX. This is a new topic (actually three new topics at this point, one that you figured out) you are asking about so I am not going to answer it here....

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Harold Fuchs — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:49:17 GMT

Sorry but why is it a *new* topic? Your method for entering Unicode characters in Windows doesn't seem to work on a perfectly standard Windows XP system. I'm trying to find out why. How can that be a new topic? What would you suggest I call it?

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:08:40 GMT

If you leave it here and I forget that it is here before I get a chance to answer it (keeping in mind the tons of other questions I hvae gotten first, etc.), then it will never be answered.

Bottom line -- I can't litter posts that are 2.5 years old with new thing to talk about that require fuller info like screen shots or formatted datas or whatever.

I will leave the choice to you on whether that is an acceptable risk....

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Harold Fuchs — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:13:11 GMT

OK, I've entered a new topic ...

http://fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

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re: Typing in random Unicode code points

me — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:43:01 GMT

can you do this in vista too?

I don't find a unicode layout!

re: Typing in random Unicode code points

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:30:52 GMT

In other blogs within this Blog I explain that it has been removed and even provide workarounds....

Using one Unicode input method at a time (Using the Unicode IME on XP)

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:54:29 GMT

So back in the beginning of 2008, Harold Fuchs (in response to my Typing in random Unicode code points