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Hi!
I want to be able to type or make characters that aren't part of the computer's regular set. I have read about things over the past several years such that there are supposedly up to 30,000 characters that one can type, but on what computer? Not mine.
The Unicode CJK has I guess a zillion or so characters and one can download for free the fonts to read them all, but how I can I type this stuff?
I found a video for the Windows way to do this. I am using a Mac at the moment (can it?), but looking to get a PC at some point. Still, I would prefer to just be able to type things. One can type quite a few obscure characters/components (e.g. 㠯), so it would be nice to be able to type the rest of the ones I need.
Type what? For example, the left hand side of 帥 (i.e. 帥 without 巾) or the bottom of 雪 (not 彐 as the Taiwan version of 雪 has the middle line going through the right side). Dictionaries have lots of weird characters, so the software is out there, but when I asked about it in China a few years back, none of the software related stores had any idea. Not surprising since not many people need this sort of software.
I need to be able to type these into Pages or Word or a PDF.
If you know for sure about some way to do this, ideally if you have used it yourself, please let me know here or by PM. Thank you!
I want to be able to type or make characters that aren't part of the computer's regular set. I have read about things over the past several years such that there are supposedly up to 30,000 characters that one can type, but on what computer? Not mine.
The Unicode CJK has I guess a zillion or so characters and one can download for free the fonts to read them all, but how I can I type this stuff?
I found a video for the Windows way to do this. I am using a Mac at the moment (can it?), but looking to get a PC at some point. Still, I would prefer to just be able to type things. One can type quite a few obscure characters/components (e.g. 㠯), so it would be nice to be able to type the rest of the ones I need.
Type what? For example, the left hand side of 帥 (i.e. 帥 without 巾) or the bottom of 雪 (not 彐 as the Taiwan version of 雪 has the middle line going through the right side). Dictionaries have lots of weird characters, so the software is out there, but when I asked about it in China a few years back, none of the software related stores had any idea. Not surprising since not many people need this sort of software.
I need to be able to type these into Pages or Word or a PDF.
If you know for sure about some way to do this, ideally if you have used it yourself, please let me know here or by PM. Thank you!