Uncle Hanzi's
Chinese and Multilingual Computing Page
Chinese Encoding Standards Information
Big5 大五码 encoding -
wikipedia.org
GB2312-80
encoding - wikipedia.org
GB18030
encoding - wikipedia.org
GBK encoding - wikipedia.org
Unicode - wikipedia.org
UTF-8
encoding - wikipedia.org
UTF-16/UCS-2
encoding - wikipedia.org
UTF-32/UCS-4
encoding - wikipedia.org
Surrogate pairs to UTF32 conversion table. - i18nguy.com
Internationalization and localization - wikipedia.org
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
Character Decomposition wikipedia.org
Unihan Info Chinese zh.wikipedia.org
Character View Tests - Can you
see all the characters you could / should
be seeing?
Character view test Big5 - khngai.com
Character view test GB2312-80 - ash.jp
Character view test Alphabets of the World - chineseetymology.org
Character view test CJK_Unified_Ideographs_(U+4E00_U+9FFF)
- chineseetymology.org / 21991
Everyday Chinese -
traditional/simplified CJK
Character view test CJK_Extension_A_(U+3400_U+4DBF)
- chineseetymology.org / 6591 Not so often
Chinese
Character view test CJK_Extension_B_(U+20000_U+2A6DF)
- chineseetymology.org / Rare Chinese
Character view test CJK_Ideographs_Extension_C_(U+2A700_U+2B73F)
- chineseetymology.org / Very Rare Chinese
Character view test CJK_Ideographs_Extension_D_(U+2B740_U+2B81F)
- chineseetymology.org /Extremely rare Chinese
Character view test Hangul_Syllables_UTF8_(U+AC00_U+D7AF)
- chineseetymology.org
Characters you should be seeing -
Unicode4.0CodeChartsGraphical.pdf - chineseetymology.org
Characters you should be seeing -
Unicode5.2CodeChartsGraphical-MulticolHan.pdf - chineseetymology.org
Unicode
6.0 Character Code Charts (for all languages) - unicode.org
Unicode
CJK Unified Ideographs (Basic Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - unicode.org
Letter names for world alphabets, no Chinese Characters
- ssec.wisc.edu
Ancient Scripts (Alphabets) - ancientscripts.com
Omniglot (Alphabets) - omniglot.com
GB18030/GBK to Unicode spread sheet - zi.guoxue.com
Various online word and
character dictionaries
English - Use Wikipedia or Google or Baidu
to search for detailed information on English or Chinese words
Chinese - Use Wikipedia or Google or Baidu
to search for detailed information on English or Chinese words
English - Online Etymology Dictionary -
etymonline.com
English - Oxford English Dictionary - oed.com
(need to subscribe)
English - Merriam Webster -
merriam-webster.com (no etymology)
Chinese - English Technical Scientific Dictionary Dictall.com
Chinese to English - MDBG - mdbg.com
Color coded tone, encoding conversion
Character
Animation and Input (Nciku) - nciku.com
Character Animation and Input (Yellowbridge)
-
yellowbridge.com
Character Animation and Input (Chinese-tools) - chinese-tools.com
Chinese Etymology - Zdic (In
Chinese) - zdic.net
Shuowen Dictionary
shuowen.org
Slang Dictionary (political) chinadigitaltimes.net
Simplified to Traditional rule List
Cantonese Dictionary (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
-
arts.cuhk.edu.hk
Cantonese Supplementary Characters (Hong Kong Government)
-
ogcio.gov.hk
Taiwanese1 (Taiwanese - in Chinese)
Shanghaiese - wu-chinese.com
Japanese kanji - caiga-jp.com
Korean Hanja (hanja naver) - hanja.naver.com
Korean Hanja (stars21) - stars21.com
Korean Hanja (hanjadic)
- hanjiadic.bravende.us
Chinese dialect phonetics development -
eastling.org
Animation how to draw Chinese characters - lost-theory.org
Sino-Tibetan etymological dictionary and thesaurus - stedt.org
Chinse-English dictionary -
archchinese.com
Character animation -
animation.archchinese.com
Chinese languages -
chinalanguage.com
Mobile
Dictionary - iPhone - Android pleco.com
Automatic Translation and
encoding conversion
Convert
from Simplified to Traditional - translate.google.com
Convert from Traditional to Simplified - translate.google.com
Translate from Chinese characters to English and other
languages -
translate.google.com
Translate from English or other languages to Traditional or
Simplified Chinese -
translate.google.com
Mandarin speech from Chinese characters - translate.google.com
Convert from Chinese characters to pinyin with tone marks - translate.google.com
Alternate translations - translate.google.com
Automatic web page translation - Google Chrome automatic web
page translation bar -
google.com
Chinese Text Annotation Tool - chineese-tools.com
Converts Chinese text to show "per word" pronunciation and
English translation.
Chinese Calligraphy Editor - chinese-tools.com
Makes Chinese look like it used to.
Convert Unicode Chinese to Unicode &#(decimal);
- chinese-tools.com
Gives decimal representation for use in HTML, VB and C# programs
Convert Unicode &#(decimal); to Unicode Chinese -
chinese-tools.com
Lets you see characters represented by decimal representation
Convert Mandarin pinyin(number) to pinyin(tone) and
&#(decimal) for the pinyin - chineese-tools.com
Shows you the tone marks for regular text and decimal notation for in
line programming
Convert
Big5-GB2312 (Study character equivalents) - 114.xixik.com
Convert Files
GB-2312, GBK, GB18030, HZ, Big5, CNS11643, UTF-8, UTF-8 (Trad)
- mandarintools.
Click Chinese Encoding Converter. This is a Java Applet, You must load
the Java plug-in and allow the applet to run.
Click Romanization Converter. This is a Java
Applet, You must load the Java plugin and allow the
applet to run.
Encoding Code Page Identifiers, .NET name, etc.
Encoding Surrogates and Supplementary Characters
Convert between ISO8859-1, Macintosh garbled text to GB, Big5
or UTF8, with various HTML options
Convert Chinese Unicode to hexadecimal or decimal
-
Automatic web page translation - other browsers?
Chinese character encoding and
information conversion programming
Unicode
conversions by programming language
Shows language code, LCID setting, decimal, hexadecimal
and Codepage
Shows code page identifier .NET name and other
Information on code pages and character sets - i18nguy
All
about spelling in Chinese - pinyin.info
Chinese
Romanization, other spellings and spelling conversion - pinyin.info
All
the usual Romanization systems and non Romanization spellings - pinyin.info
All you will ever need to know about Chinese pinyin diacritical marks
in Unicode - pinyin.info
List in hanyu pinyin order of zhuyin fuhao equivalents - pinyin.info
List in zhuyin fuhao order of hanyu pinyin
equivalents - pinyin.info
Hanyu pinyin
spell checker - pinyin.info
Convert hanyu pinyin to zhuyin fuhao - pinyin.info
Globalization,
Localization and Internationalization
Globalization Step by Step - msdn
Chinese
etymology
Chineeetymloogy home page - chineseetymology.org
Mandarin
- chineseetymology -
chineseetymology.org
Chinese Equivalent Websites -
chineseetymology.org
Enable
XP for maximum Chinese
Enable
XP for maximum Chinese -
chineseetymology.org
Chinese Encoding Conversion http://www.chineseetymology.org/ComputerCharacterResources.htm
Input Chinese
characters or other language characters
Character Input - Google Pinyin IME 谷歌拼音输入法
Instructions
for installing the Japanese IME (Which will handle Extension B Chinese)
Cangjie Input information (This is supposed to include
Unicode extension B, Input is based on the structure of the character)
Cangjie Input Method
wikipedia.org
Character lookup Windows (Worst case you can use the character map
to lookup, cut and paste the character,
but only for characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Character lookup Unicode Worst case for characters not in the
BMP, you can look up the Unicode indexes in the Unicode PDF files and input the
addresses as hexidecimal
Wubi Input Info wikipedia.org
Vietnamese
Input Online and Conversion
Vietnamese OCR - sourceforge.net
Cantonese Info
zh.wikipedia.org
Cantonese Character Database and Dictionary
Cantonese
Input Online cantoneseinput.com
Cantonese Sidney Lau Phonetic System
Wu Dialects - Shanghaiese
Dictionary
Taiwanese
Online
conversion among major image formats
Online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) image to text in
different languages.
Online
International Keyboards
Phonetic
Cantonese character input
Pointers to
lots of Chinese Language and Computing sites http://kdd.cc/
Chinese
Wenlin - Chinese learning software
Chinese
texts online
Chinese Texts Buddhist - cbeta.org
Chinese Texts Philosophy - ctext.org
Chinese Texts (Chinese四庫全書) - sikuquanshu.com
Most
important Chinese holidays
Chinese
new year春节 Chūn Jié - wikipedia.org
Tomb
Sweeping Day清明節 Qīngmíngji
- wikipedia.org
Dragon
boat festival端午節 Duānwǔ Jié -
wikipedia.org
Mid Autumn Festival - Moon Festival 中秋節Zhōngqiūjié - wikipedia.org
Chinese
Girl or Boy name?
Chinese name gender gusser - chinesetools
Study Chinese
The Confucius Institute
(孔子学院）(Government sponsored worldwide language and culture program)
The Confucius Institute
parent organization
Chinese Forums for learning Chinese
http://mandarinportal.com/index.php
快典网 ｋｄｄ是英文 “knowledge discovery in database 中文为 快点点 (Chinese
computing and Culture)
Input methods,
dictionaries, history, literature, etc.
The home page
Calligraphy Dictionary 书法字典
- kdd
Single character display in
various calligraphy styles including super cursive.
Inline coding representation and conversion of Chinese
characters.
Inline coding representations and conversions of Chinese
characters - kdd.cc
Conversion to and from various inline coding
representations
Chinese - means character display
representation of Unicode like -中文
HTML
- means decimal representation of Unicode like - 中文
UTF-8
- means hexadecimal representation of Unicode like - 中文
JS
Encryption - 加码 like - <script>document.write(unescape('%u4E2D%u6587%0A'));</script>
HTML to JavaScript, HTML to UBB (Ultimate Bulletin Board), HTML to ASP
(Active Server Pages)
HTML to PHP (PHP Hypertext Processor), HTML to JSP (Java Server Pages),
HTML to Perl
HTML to SWS (Simple Web Site), HTML to VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET), HTML
to Javascript HTML transfer
ASCII to Unicode, JavaScript to HTML, UBB to HTML, Unicode to ASCII, JS
Decryption 解码 - to character display
Chinese to UTF-8, UTF-8 to Chinese
FREE Software
downloads
MySQL Server -
mysql.com (Database management system client and server)
Media
player VideoLAN VLC - videolan.org (plays most YouTube files)
Sound editor Audacity source forge - audacity.sourceforge.net
Sound editor - hongkiat.com
Office software - openoffice.org
Fonts open source - sourceforge.net
RAR Extract Frog (Free) - download.cnet
Zip Unzip (Free) - jzip.com
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate 90 day download, 4 parts
- microsoft.com
Visual Studio 2010 Express 90 day download - microsoft.com
SQL Server 2008 R2 180 day download - microsoft.com
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Advanced Services 180 day
download - microsoft.com
SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio Express 180 day
download - microsoft.com
Information
for computer programmers
HTML,
JavaScript, CSS -
w3schools.com
Visual Studio 2008 - msdn.microsoft.com
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Glossary - msdn.microsoft.com
Tutorial SQL Server Management Studio - msdn.microsoft.com
Solution (.sln) File - msdn.microsoft.com
@ Page -
msdn.microsoft.com
ASP.NET Introduction
- w3schools.com
CSS Properties - htmlhelp.com
.NET Framework 4.0 class library -
msdn.microsoft.com
ASP.NET Overview and API Reference -
msdn.microsoft.com
ADO.NET Overview -
msdn.microsoft.com
Visual Basic language reference -
msdn.microsoft.com
C# language reference -
msdn.microsoft.com
Transact-SQL Reference -
msdn.microsoft.com
Drivers
and System Files -
systemlookup.com
Find my IP
address - ipchicken.com
Find my
upstream and downstream connection speed - speedtest.net
Webinars Cisco Webex - webx.com
XP Updates -
ghacks.net
Confucius institute online - Chinese teaching and other stuff - chinese.cn
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - optical character recognition
of pre written text, printed usually or hand written.
Text Understanding Systems -
extracting information from computerized text
Speech Recognition -
recognizing spoken words
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