argentina1
July 11th, 2008, 04:23 PM
Hi,
I am studying chinese and I am using scim to input chinese characters which works fine.Unfortunately I haven't found a way to display pinyin which is a romanization system for showing how chinese characters are to be pronounced (since from the character itself it is only very seldom possible to derive how it has to be pronounced).
Pinyin works by putting 4 types of accents on top of vowels which describe how one has to lower or raise the voice: e.g. "wǔ kuài qián" or "shālā" (see http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.gao/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm for anybody interested).
When learning chinese it is very important to be able to write these kind of accents. I have tried various keyboard layouts but none contains all the characters required (e.g. chī ). In Windows there is the possibility to choose a special pinyin keyboard layout which will allow one to precede a vowel with a number e.g. (one types w3u ku4ai qi2an to get wǔ kuài qián). Is there a similar way to do this in Ubuntu?
Thanks for your help
Georg
I am studying chinese and I am using scim to input chinese characters which works fine.Unfortunately I haven't found a way to display pinyin which is a romanization system for showing how chinese characters are to be pronounced (since from the character itself it is only very seldom possible to derive how it has to be pronounced).
Pinyin works by putting 4 types of accents on top of vowels which describe how one has to lower or raise the voice: e.g. "wǔ kuài qián" or "shālā" (see http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.gao/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm for anybody interested).
When learning chinese it is very important to be able to write these kind of accents. I have tried various keyboard layouts but none contains all the characters required (e.g. chī ). In Windows there is the possibility to choose a special pinyin keyboard layout which will allow one to precede a vowel with a number e.g. (one types w3u ku4ai qi2an to get wǔ kuài qián). Is there a similar way to do this in Ubuntu?
Thanks for your help
Georg