Virtual keyboards provide input by clicking on a character.

PC Keyboard

The PC Virtual Keyboard looks as below:

TsangChieh Keyboard

The TsangChieh Keyboard looks as below:

Array Keyboard

The Array Virtual Keyboard looks as below:

DaYi Keyboard:

The DaYi Virtual Keyboard looks as below:

ChuYin Keyboard:

The ChuYin Virtual Keyboard looks as below:

I-Tien Keyboard:

The I-Tien Virtual Keyboard looks as below:

User Defined Characters (UDC)

The UDC editor tool allows you to draw and save new characters. After ascribing the character to an input method, it can be displayed in an application.

1. Select the user defined character item on the utility menu to activate the UDC tool.

Input Method Help

Help pages are displayed in a default browser such as Netscape or Hotjava.

1. Select the input method help item of the utility menu to activate help pages in a browser.

Typing ASCII Characters

Each tool first starts in ASCII input mode, which you can toggle on or off by pressing Control-spacebar or the Chinese/English key on a Chinese keyboard. Use this mode to type ASCII keyboard characters, such as the echo command shown in the following figure:

is displayed in the window's status area when this mode is on, when ASCII input mode is off, their current conversion mode symbol appears.

Array Input Mode

Array input mode works on the radicals that compose Chinese characters. It contains 260 radicals and allocates them on the keyboard in ten columns and three rows. To used this input mode effectively, you need to memorize only ten basic keystrokes. All radicals are naturally allocated on the keyboard by the basic keystrokes.

Typing Array Text

This section contains instructions on how to use the array input method to input Chinese characters.

1. Type Control-spacebar to turn on Chinese input conversion.

   The mode appears in the status area.

   

2. Type x.

   The Array input converter finds several matching characters, so it automatically displays a lookup choice window:

   

3. Type [Shift + a] to select the appropriate character.

   The radicals are converted and the corresponding character appears:

   

Boshiamy Input Mode

Boshiamy input mode works on the radicals that compose Chinese characters. The radicals in this mode are easy to memorize by their shape, sound, or meaning. For effective use of this mode, memorize the rules: Cut off long and Patch up short.

Typing Boshiamy Text

This section contains instructions on how to use the Boshiamy input method to input Chinese characters.

1. Type Control-spacebar to turn on Chinese input mode.

   The mode appears in the status area.

   

2. Type the sets of radicals: uoo. Press the spacebar to convert it to the corresponding character.

   The input converter finds five matching characters and displays a lookup choice window:

   

3. Type a number key to select the appropriate character, such as 1 to select the first candidate:

   

DaYi Input Mode

Similar to the TsangChieh input mode, DaYi conversion works on the radicals that compose Chinese characters. The keystroke sequence of the DaYi input mode completely follows the Chinese writing sequence, and only a few rules need to be memorized.

The keyboard mapping of DaYi input mode appears as below:

Typing DaYi Text

1. Type Control-spacebar to turn on TsangChieh mode.

   The mode appears in the status area.

   

2. Type the set of radicals; o Press the spacebar after each set to convert it to a character.

   The DaYi input converter finds six matching characters and displays a lookup choices as below:

   

3. Type a number key to select the appropriate character, such as 1 to select the first candidate:

   

New ChuYin Input Method

This section describes the features in the New ChuYin input methods, and how to use some of the features in Traditional Chinese locales, including zh_TW.EUC/zh_TW.BIG5/zh_TW.UTF8/zh_HK.BIG5HK/zh_HK.UTF-8.

The New ChuYin provide the following new features:

• Support phrase input

• Support memorizing and recalling user defined phrases

• Support simplified ChuYin by only inputting consonant

• Editable pre edit string

• Adjust frequency of phrase and single Chinese character automatically