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Chapter 5: Input Methods

Cell of a Row-Cell code. Input by EUC code is quite rare for Japanese, but quite common

for Chinese (GB 2312-80) and Korean (KS X 1001:2004).

Table 5-18 lists two hanja, along with their encoded values according to a variety of Ko-

rean encodings, including Unicode.

Input by encoded value—KoreanTable 5-18.

Hanja Row-Cell EUC-KR Unicode ISO-2022-KR Johab

󰓙

89-51 93 622 7953 73

󰁚

77-14  557 62 1

Most input systems provide at least two of these input methods, usually Row-Cell and

hexadecimal ISO-2022. Sometimes the encoding method supported by the soware you

are running is another option. For example, Japanese OSes that processed Shi-JIS inter-

nally, such as Mac OS-J, Windows 3.1J, and Windows 95J, provided input methods that

gave the user the ability to perform code input by Row-Cell, hexadecimal ISO-2022-JP,

and hexadecimal Shi-JIS.

If you need to convert lots of these “codes” into actual characters, you are better o writing

a quick tool for this purpose (perhaps using Perl), or else nding soware that provides

this functionality. JCode, described in Chapter 9, provides this level of functionality, at

least for Japanese.

Input by Other Codes

China’s Telex Code (/󰗄󰔹󰝬 diànbáom),

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developed in 1911 for the purpose of

hanzi interchange, is yet another code that can be used to unambiguously input ideo-

graphs—sort of. A Telex Code is