Apple Chinese Language Kit - Manual (Page 46)

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Using the Character Table
You can use the Character table to see the codes and key sequences used to enter characters,
punctuation marks, and symbols. To see the table, choose Show Character Table from the
Pencil menu or click the appropriate button in the operation palette.
The lower part of the table shows the characters of Traditional Chinese, or the Chinese
punctuation marks and symbols. When you select a character in the table, the input codes
and keys for entering the character appear at the top-right of the table.
Here’s how to use the table:
1 Choose from the Category (top) pop-up menu whether you want to see characters or
punctuation marks and symbols in the table.
2 Choose the font you want to use from the Font (bottom) pop-up menu.
3 In the lower part of the palette, click to select the character, punctuation mark, or symbol
you want to see information about.
The characters are in the order of their Big5 Code hexadecimal code.
When you select a character, you see this information about it in the top-right of the table:
m
the Big5 Code code
m the Cangjie input keys
m the Dayi input keys
m the Pinyin spelling for the character
m the Zhuyin symbols to enter the character
4 To enter a character in your document, double-click it in the table.
Codes for characters
appear here.
Choose characters or
punctuation here.
Choose a font here.