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Instructions for Use. with These Macros You May Enter Any Double-Byte Asian Characters and Make Simple Conversion of Texts for East Asian Languages CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. CJKV VBA IME for MS Word version 3.2 by WERTA© 2000–2014 Instructions for use. With these macros you may enter any double-byte Asian characters and make simple conversion of texts for East Asian languages. These macros are includes: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese units in the dot- format files (MS Word templates). Technical requirements For properly work of these macros you need the MS Word software installed on your PC with MS Office version not 2000 earlier. These macros have no digital signature, so after installation, you need change to low security of your MS Word for work with VBA-macros, for example: (Tools => Macro => Security => Low). After run of MS Word or after open any of the dot-files, you will see a new toolbars in MS Word application. The binary files and conversion tables program path is fixed and determined as C:\ CJKV_VBA. Created by: WERTA©, 2000-2014 1 CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. 1. Chinese Input Methods for MS Word. 1.1 List of IME Format Description: A set of characters (Ex. / Trad.) Input method. Input methods (character set) for Simplified Chinese (GB2312): Phonetic (Mandarin) GuoBiao (JianTi) PinYin - standard Pinyin with using digitals for tones and input letter «v» instead of «ü». Character set is GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is Latin letters. Text input mode is single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). For the Pinyin IMEs (GB and Big5) few variants of Latinized Chinese transcription systems were added as a button control for a switching. Five transcription systems variants were included for Standard Chinese phonemes text input. By the cyclic switching of control button at the right side of text edit field you can choice appropriate transcription system what you need. After each clicking the color of button will be change accordingly with follows systems list: Standard Pinyin (gray) Wade-Giles Romanization (green) MPS II (red) Yale Romanization (yellow) Tongyong PY (purple) Gwoyeu Romatzyh (blue), after phoneme input, you need to press space bar. The without tones words input is available only in Standard Pinyin mode (gray button color). GuoBiao (JianTi) ShuangPin - input phoneme is available always with two keyboards clicks (called ShuangPin). The first key press is corresponds to PinYin initial. The second key press is corresponds to PinYin medial+final. Character set is GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are Created by: WERTA©, 2000-2014 2 CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. available. Text input mode is single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). GuoBiao (JianTi) ZhuYin - input based on Zhuyin Zimu alphabet. Character set is GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard Bopomofo. Text input mode is single ideographic characters only. GuoBiao (FanTi) PinYin - standard Pinyin, with using digitals for tones and input letter «v» instead of «ü». Character set is GB2312. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is Latin letters. Text input mode is single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). GuoBiao (FanTi) ShuangPin - input phoneme is available always with two keyboards clicks (called ShuangPin). The first key press is corresponds to PinYin initial. The second key press is corresponds to PinYin medial+final. Character set is GB2312. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Text input mode is single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). GuoBiao (FanTi) ZhuYin - input based on Zhuyin Zimu alphabet. Character set is GB2312. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard Bopomofo. Text input mode is single ideographic characters only. Structural methods GuoBiao (JianTi) CangJie - input with CangJie system. The maximum length of the input string is 5 characters. Character set - GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard CangJie. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by matching of the entered part of the coding CangJie stroke. The input mode is single input of ideographic character only. GuoBiao (JianTi) CangJie (exact) - input with CangJie system. The maximum length of the input string is 5 characters. Character set is GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard CangJie. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by both matching of the entered part of the encoding CangJie stroke and the total length of encoding CangJie stroke. The input mode is single input of ideographic character only. Created by: WERTA©, 2000-2014 3 CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. GuoBiao (JianTi) WuBi - input with Wubi system. The maximum length of the input string is 4 characters. Character set is GB2312. Simplified Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard WuBi. Input modes is type of single ideographic character only. Phonetic (Dialects) GuoBiao (JT/FT) Shanghai IME – this is an input with standard Latin transcription system for Shanghainese with the numerical tones designation (0-5). Character set is GB2312. In the ideographs choice list you can see both simplified and traditional hanzi. For this input method the keyboard layout is standard English. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. GuoBiao (JT/FT) Wu IME – this is an input with generalized Latin transcription system for Wu dialects without any numerical tones designation. Character set is GB2312. In the ideographs choice list you can see both simplified and traditional hanzi. For this input method the keyboard layout is standard English. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. For activation the list of choice you need just press space bar after input of Wu phoneme. Input methods (character set) for Traditional Chinese: Phonetic (Mandarin) Big5 PinYin - standard Pinyin, with using digitals for tones and input letter «v» instead of «ü». Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is Latin letters. Text input mode is typing of single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). Big5 ShuangPin - input phoneme is available always with two keyboards clicks (called ShuangPin). The first keypress is corresponds to PinYin initial. The second keypress is corresponds to PinYin medial+final. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Text input mode is typing of single ideographic characters and you can also input some Chinese words (tone digits is not use for it). Big5 ZhuYin - input based on Zhuyin Zimu alphabet. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard Bopomofo. Text input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Created by: WERTA©, 2000-2014 4 CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. Structural methods Big5 CangJie - input with CangJie system. The maximum length of the input string is 5 characters. Character set - BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard CangJie. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by matching of the entered part of the coding CangJie stroke. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Big5 CangJie (exact) - input with CangJie system. The maximum length of the input string is 5 characters. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard CangJie. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by both matching of the entered part of the encoding CangJie stroke and the total length of encoding CangJie stroke. The input mode is single input of ideographic character only. Big5 Array30 - input with Array30 system. The maximum length of the input string is 4 characters. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is Array30. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by matching of the entered part of the coding Array30 stroke. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Big5 Boshiamy - input with Boshiamy system. The maximum length of the input string is 4 characters. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is Boshiamy. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by matching of the entered part of the coding Boshiamy stroke. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Big5 DaYi (4) - input with DaYi system. The maximum length of the input string is 4 characters. Character set - BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is DaYi. The selection of characters for the input list is performs by matching of the entered part of the coding DaYi stroke. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Phonetic methods (Chinese dialects) Big5 Cantonese PY - input with Cantonese transcription without tone digits. Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard Latin. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Created by: WERTA©, 2000-2014 5 CJKV VBA IME for MS Word v 3.2 user’s guide information .. Big5 Hakka PY - input with transcription for Hakka dialects, with digital marking of tones (1-6). Character set is BIG5. Traditional Chinese characters are available. Keyboard layout is standard Latin. The input mode is type of single ideographic character only. Input methods for UNICODE CJK extensions PinYin IME (CJK Unified + ExtA) - input with Standard Pinyin with digital Chinese tones designation (1-5) and with letter «v» instead of «ü». A set of characters for enter is Unicode: CJK Unified + CJK ExtA.
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