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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: [ rockbox-Patches-920256 ] Traditional/Simplified Chinese patchRe: [ rockbox-Patches-920256 ] Traditional/Simplified Chinese patch
From: Tat Tang <tat_tang_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 06:20:45 -0800 (PST) > if we did get chineese support, how would you put > it in filenames? Guess this is for renaming files. I think this is a relatively rare operation. And if you weren't able to type in a Chinese filename, it wouldn't deter people from using the system. Getting id3 tags and filenames is (imho) the most important piece. And that works. Most of the current users are bilingual and none of them have actually requested a way of entering characters on the Archos. To answer in the spirit of your question. Adding a way of entering characters is perfectly feasible. Albeit at the cost of using some extra memory for tables. There are multiple ways of tackling this problem and different users have different preferred methods. If you think about it, it is the same problem as looking up a Chinese character in a dictionary. Here is one common method (slightly simplified for explanation). If I want to type in the characters for "Northern" and "Capital" using my English keyboard, I type "bei" followed by "jing". This works because "bei" is the pronunciation for "Northern" in Mandarin, and "jing" is the pronunciation for "Capital". Tokyo in Mandarin is Eastern Captial so I'd type dongjing. There are other systems which analyses the graphical elements and assigns some code to the constituents. For example the character for "fruit" has a ChangJie code of CD. Both these methods can be mapped into the English alphabet. Pretty handy really. In programming terms it's just a case of adding a table lookup. Tat.. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-03-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |