Chinese signs in OpenOffice for Linux

donquixote1 · 08-10-2008, 12:32 PM

How can I insert chinese signs in OpenOffice Writer and possibly copy chinese signs from another document and then paste into OpenOffice Writer.
Please advise. Thanks.

bigrigdriver · 08-11-2008, 08:57 AM

Assuming you have the Chinese language pack installed, click on the Insert menu and select Special Character. In the Font dropdown list, select the font you want and in the Subset menu select the language. Find the symbol in the display box.

As for copying from another document to OOo, I should think that's a straightforward copy/paste operation.

donquixote1 · 08-11-2008, 09:38 AM

Thanks, I've Suse 11 and OpenOffice 2.4.6.1. I installed openoffice.org-zn-ch, same version with its ttf dependency, but I still cannot find anything under Special Character. How come?

jlinkels · 08-11-2008, 04:49 PM

I was able to copy characters from Gucharmap into Writer. But it is not easy to find your Chinese character in the is charmap as there are over 10,000 characters.

You might be looking for an input method where Chinese syllabes written in Latin characters are translated into Chinese like xse-xse translates to 谢谢

It is called Pinyin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin. I know this exists for Linux as well.

jlinkels

donquixote1 · 08-16-2008, 10:24 AM

Thanks Jlinkels, indeed there is a good solution for Linux, SCIM, I installed this and everything works fine now. Thanks again.