Chinese character sets windows xp

For most IMEs, there usually have a way to add characters to a dictionary. I just tested it now with the google IME. I can add the 4-dragon. Checking now on my Mac at home, it would seem it doesn't have any fonts that support this character either.

If you don't need to share the document electronically with others but are satisfied with storing and printing it, the four dragons and lots of interesting non-standard character varieties are included in the Mojikyo fonts. I suppose it would even be possible to make a pdf file from your document, but I haven't tried that yet. On my computer, only Simsun Founder extented sursong. Using the same "4-dragons" example again. I looked it up in the Unihan website as suggested by imron above.

It displays the link to the character as a graphic, but when I click the link, where the character should be displayed is just a box with the Unicode for it, i.

Now, when I copy-and-paste that 'box' into Google, and do a search on it, I do get results on the "4-dragons" the first link is to zh.

Now, I suppose this means that my Windows XP does not have this character in the character set, so it cannot be displayed. So, back to my original question: What can I do in order to be able to get them into my OS's character database, such that I can:. I realise I am phrasing the question in rather non-tech and laymen's terms.

BTW, I am using the "4-dragon" character just as an example - I have other far more useful characters - mostly dialect ones - that I want to generate, but cannot.

This is purely a font issue. As long as you have a unicode font that contains the character, then it should display if you select that font and in fact even if you don't select that font because the OS should perform font-substitution for you. Okay, let's say I do have the Unicode font that includes a particular character. Does it mean that if, let's say, I:. Search for the character I want for simplicity, let's use the "4-dragons" again - so I scroll down to all the characters with the dragon radical, and search for it.

Using the "4-dragons" case, I searched through all the three font sets I listed above. So, what you mean is, I do not have the Unicode font that contains the "4-dragon" character amongst others. Where I can I download and install them, then?

I have seen it printed in books before, but have no idea how to generate it in Windows XP, so I wonder how the printers did it. Strangely, neither have I seen it displayed on any website before. Ok, it turns out I have only one font on my system that contains the four dragons character. A google search for sursong. It's also quite possible that the publishers of books with this in it created their own specialised font to print it.

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Posted July 29, at AM. Chinese characters may appear on Web pages as images gif or jpeg or special character sets. When they appear as special character sets you must have those fonts downloaded to your computer for them to display. The language and character set names will appear under Character Set or Encoding in the View menu your browser even though the fonts have not been downloaded. See an example page with the Traditional Chinese Big5 character set.

This should work you have downloaded the character set and selected it in preferences. Simplified characters are now used in China and Singapore. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and most overseas communities.

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