In the English to Chinese input method (not available in Standard Version), UnionWay Chinese system provides a dictionary of 40,000 translated English to Chinese words and phrases. It uses the standard keyboard layout for the English character input.

Entering UnionWay Chinese system, English is the default input method, you can use the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F3" to switch to the English to Chinese input method. If you click the button, the IME Configuration dialog box will appear. Click the list box, it will bring down a list of input method, select, and the current Chinese input method is switched to English to Chinese. This dialog box is then referred to as the English to Chinese Configuration dialog box.

Following are some of the hot keys that you can use during the input:

Ctrl + Space or switch between the current Chinese and English

Using as example 1:

only one phrase appeared is. Pressing the numeric key 1 (or F1) will send the target phrase into the application program at the cursor position.

Using as example 2:

Type while in the English to Chinese mode,

pressing the numeric key 1 (or F1) will send the target phrase into the application program at the cursor position.

The Space bar entry is first taken as a space character input, if there are no space character expected, it will then be taken as the paging command entry.

To customize and set the preferred parameters for English to Chinese input method, you must select the English to Chinese (), as the current Chinese input method in the IME Configuration dialog box as shown in the figure below:

There are two selections in the Space Character section:

The alternate text file format begins with the Chinese Word or Phrase + , (English comma) + Input Code. For Example:

Each phrase is limited to 16 Chinese words or less, but there is no limitation to the total number of entry in the text file.

While in the English to Chinese Configuration dialog box, click the button will bring up the open file dialog box for the text file. Specify the appropriate text file name and click OK button, and this will bring you to the Import Text file to IME Dictionary dialog box where you can specify the text file format that you used, is it the or the format. Click OK button to confirm the option selected. You will see a message indicating if the import was successful.

There are two ways to add new words or phrases into the English to Chinese dictionary:

Using as an example:

After entering the input code, and find that the system would not accept any more input, and the is not in the phrase selection. Press the Enter key and a yellow area appears on the bottom left of the UnionWay tool bar as shown:

The yellow zone is holding the input code of the phrase to be added, and you can add the into this zone.

Pressing the Enter key again brings up a red zone for holding the phrase to be added (16 words or less).

Now use any of the input method provided by UnionWay Chinese system and enter the phrase in the red zone shown:

Press the Enter key again, the phrase is then simultaneously being added into the English to Chinese dictionary and sent to the application program at the cursor position (yellow and red zone will disappear at this time).

In the process of expending the English to Chinese dictionary, Backspace is used for delete input code or Chinese character, Esc is to cancel the process.

Input Symbol Characters

On the English to Chinese input method keyboard, there are a few symbols defined for input such as the Chinese comma, period, parenthesis, etc., but not enough space for mapping all the Chinese symbol characters. The Symbol input method is used for the input of additional Chinese symbol characters. While in the PinYin Configuration dialog box, set the current input method to the Symbol () input method. Or press the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F7" to switch to Symbol input method. Then click with the left mouse button, and the keyboard layout for Symbol input method will be displayed (clicking the Shift button in the keyboard map window will bring up the second set of symbols for input). If you need other symbols that are not provided in the Symbol input method keyboard map window, please refer to the Internal Code input method for additional Chinese symbol characters input.

Entering UnionWay Chinese system, English is the default input method, you can use the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F4" to switch to the CangJie input method. If you click the with the left mouse button, the IME Configuration dialog box will appear. Click the list box, it will bring down a list of input methods, select, and the current Chinese input method is switch to CangJie. This dialog box is then referred to as the CangJie Configuration dialog box. Select the Keyboard tag will bring up the following keyboard layout map:

Following are some of the hot keys that you can use during the input:

Ctrl + Space or switch between the current Chinese and English

Please refer to any of the published CangJie Input Method handbook for the details of CangJie Input.

CangJie Configuration

To customize and set the preferred parameters for CangJie Input Method, you must select the CangJie as the current Chinese input method in the IME Configuration dialog box as shown in the figure below:

There are two selections in the Space Character section:

The alternate text file format begins with the Chinese Word or Phrase + , (English comma) + Input Code. For Example:

Each phrase is limited to 16 Chinese words or less, but there is no limitation to the total number of entry in the text file.

While in the CangJie Configuration dialog box, click the button will bring up the open file dialog box for the text file. Specify the appropriate text file name and click OK button, and this will bring you to the Import Text file to IME Dictionary dialog box where you can specify the text file format that you used, is it the or the format. Click OK button to confirm the option selected. You will see a message indicating if the import was successful.

Expending CangJie Dictionary

There are two ways to add new words or phrases into the CangJie dictionary:

Using as an example:

After entering the input code, and find that is not in the phrase selection. Press the Enter key and a yellow area appears on the bottom left of the UnionWay Chinese system tool bar as shown:

The yellow zone is holding the input code of the phrase to be added, and you can make changes to the input code while in this zone. For the ease of future reference to the phrase, please use the standard input rules.

Pressing the Enter key again will bring up a red zone for holding the phrase to be added (16 words or less). Now use any of the UnionWay input method and enter the phrase in the red zone (if you are adding a newly created word by the Font Maker, you will have to use the Internal Code input method to enter the new word into the red zone) as shown:

Press the Enter key again, the phrase is then simultaneously being added into the CangJie dictionary and sent to the application program at the cursor position (yellow and red zone will disappear at this time).

In the process of expending the CangJie dictionary, Backspace is used for delete input code or Chinese word, Esc is to cancel process.

Input Symbol Characters

On the CangJie Input Method keyboard, there are a few symbols defined for input such as the comma, period, parenthesis, etc., but not enough space for mapping all the Chinese symbol characters. The Symbol input method is used for the input of additional Chinese symbol characters. While in the PinYin Configuration dialog box, set the current input method to the Symbol () input method. Or press the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F7" to switch to Symbol input method. Then click with the left mouse button, and the keyboard layout for Symbol input method will be displayed (clicking the Shift button in the keyboard map window will bring up the second set of symbols for input). If you need other symbols that are not provided in the Symbol input method keyboard map window, please refer to the Internal Code input method for additional Chinese symbol characters input.

Internal Code is referring to the computer storage address of the characters and symbols. There are two major Chinese Internal code systems, one is the Big5 Code, and the other is the GB Code. The differences is the number of Chinese characters definition and the storage address. The similarity is that both are using 4 hexadecimal digits to register the storage address to a Chinese character or a symbol. The storage address for Big5 code symbols start at A140, and the Chinese characters start at A440; while the GB code symbols start at A1A1, and the Chinese characters start at B0A1.

The Internal Code () input method is especially handy in the following situation:

1. Internal Code input method is the only way to find an empty room for creating new Chinese character using the Font Maker.
1. Internal Code input will bring you additional symbols that are not found even in the Symbol input method keyboard layout.

Following are some of the hot keys that you can use during the input:

Ctrl + Space or switch between the current Chinese and English

While searching for a symbol in the Big5 or GB code system, you may begin by typing , as shown:

or

Since the symbol characters begin on A140 or A1A1(4 hexadecimal digits), then use the ¡õ or ¡ô key to page through the list to find your target symbol.

The initial default set up for the Internal Code input is: after typing the complete code for a Chinese character or symbol, it will be send into the application program at the cursor position automatically. Please refer to previous section for details in the Internal Code Configuration dialog box.

Cantonese input method is based on the Cantonese pronunciation of each word, and uses the Cantonese PinYin code as the input code. Only single word input is provided in the Cantonese IME, and it uses the standard English keyboard layout for input.

Entering UnionWay Chinese system, English is the default input method, you can use the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F6" to switch to the Cantonese input method. If you click the with the left mouse button, the IME Configuration dialog box will appear. Click the list box, it will bring down a list of input methods, select, and the current Chinese input method is switch to Cantonese. This dialog box is then referred to as the Cantonese Configuration dialog box.

Following are some of the hot keys that you can use during the input:

Ctrl + Space or switch between the current Chinese and English

Using as an example:

Pressing the numeric key 1 (or F1) will send the target word into the application program at the cursor position.

To customize and set the preferred parameters for Cantonese input method, you must select the Cantonese, , as the input method in the IME Configuration dialog box as shown in the figure below:

There are two selections in the Space Character section:

The alternate text file format begins with the Chinese Word or Phrase + , (English comma) + Input Code. For Example:

Each phrase is limited to 16 Chinese words or less, but there is no limitation to the total number of entry in the text file.

While in the Cantonese Configuration dialog box, click the button will bring up the open file dialog box for the text file. Specify the appropriate text file name and click OK button, and this will bring you to the Import Text file to IME Dictionary dialog box where you can specify the text file format that you used, is it the or the format. Click OK button to confirm the option selected. You will see a message indicating if the import was successful.

There are two ways to add new words or phrases into the Cantonese dictionary:

On the Cantonese input method keyboard layout, there are a few symbols defined for input such as the comma, period, parenthesis, etc., but not enough space for mapping all the Chinese symbol characters. The Symbol input method is used for the input of additional Chinese symbol characters. While in the PinYin Configuration dialog box, set the current input method to the Symbol () input method. Or press the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F7" to switch to Symbol input method. Then click with the left mouse button, and the keyboard layout for Symbol input method will be displayed (clicking the Shift button in the keyboard map window will bring up the second set of symbols for input). If you need other symbols that are not provided in the Symbol input method keyboard map window, please refer to the Internal Code input method for additional Chinese symbol characters input.

Entering UnionWay Chinese system, English is the default input method, you can use the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F7" to switch to the Symbol input method. If you click the with the left mouse button, the IME Configuration dialog box will appear. Click the list box, it will bring down a list of input methods, select , and the current input method is switch to Symbol input method. This dialog box is then referred to as the Symbol Configuration dialog box. Select the Keyboard tag will bring up the following keyboard mapping display:

Clicking the Shift button in the keyboard map window will bring up the second set of symbols for input. The symbol input can be made through clicking of the mouse on the keys provided in keyboard map window, or typing from the keyboard directly.

Entering UnionWay Chinese system, English is the default input method, you can use the hot key "Ctrl + Alt + F8" to switch to the Simple-Stroke input method. If you click the with the left mouse button, the IME Configuration dialog box will appear. Click the list box, it will bring down a list of input methods, select, and the current input method is switch to Simple-Stroke input method. This dialog box is then referred to as the Simple-Stroke Configuration dialog box.

This is used primarily as a secondary input method. In this case, you must calculate the total number of strokes for the word, type the stroke number as an input code, then use the ¡õ and ¡ô key to page to the target word. Any word that has 20 strokes or more will be displayed together. The Simple-Stroke IME is not available in the GB code system.

Following are some of the hot keys that you can use during the input:

Ctrl + Space or switch between the current Chinese and English

UnionWay Chinese system is an open architecture system, and is able to accept new created input method, as long as you provide the input code and the corresponding Chinese word or phrase according to the following rules:

• It must be a text file with the ".TXT" name extension
• Format for each line starts with the Input Code + , (English comma) + Chinese word or phrase
• Alternate format for each line is Chinese word or phrase + , (English comma) + Input Code
• Each Chinese phrase must be 16 words or less

Following is an example of creating a customized IME in the Big5 code system, using "dic.txt" to prepare the input code and the phrases list for import into UnionWay Chinese system:

Set UnionWay Chinese system to the Big5 Code , then activate the IME Configuration dialog box by clicking the button.

Go to the third page by clicking the [Option] tag:

If you select the option, all the input code character case must exactly match those that are specified in the dictionary.

Click the button and the following confirmation dialog box will appear:

Click Yes button will bring up the Open File dialog box, enter text file name (e.g., dic.txt) for the input code and phrases list that you have prepared for setting up the new IME. Clicking OK button will bring up the following text file import dialog box:

Since the list prepared is in Code, Word format, select the Code, Word option and then click OK. There will be a prompt indicating successful import.

You must exit and then enter UnionWay Chinese system again to make the newly created input method available.

This newly created input method belongs to Big5 code system. You may select the type the Option page of the IME Configuration dialog box to delete the input method (this button can delete only the new created input method).

The very last item in the IME Configuration dialog box is:

This is not a default option.

UnionWay Asian system provides this option to use the Clipboard as a stepping board to inputting Chinese, Japanese and Korean words, avoiding the Auto Correct (or Auto Spelling Check) feature that is in some of the word processing application program such as MS-Word, WordPerfect, etc.

The Auto Correct feature often make some unwanted correction to the CJK words causing erroneous display. With this option enabled, the input to the word processor is actually first made to the clipboard, then sending the same input into the word processing program. Since the input is coming from the clipboard, the Auto Correct feature will not make additional changes to the input. Of course, you can also turn off the Auto Correct feature in the word processing program to avoid correction completely.