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January 23, 2004

How did I do it?

A couple of emails asked where I got this banner from and could they copy it. Go ahead. I made it. Actually it was trivial because (a) I know an interpreter and (b) I have a Mac.

First you open a TextEdit Window, select 'Traditional Chinese Input' from the keyboard menu:

Now select your input method:

Type in your words (two letters from the sound and then scroll through the list in this case). Or for the last character, use the radical look-up dictionary (that is a technical not a political 'radical') and count your strokes (assuming that you can write Chinese - I can't).

Lay the text out nicely with a decent font (Baui-Kai), select and copy it, whip out Graphic Converter and do a 'New Image from Clipboard' and then colour it in (this image is a four colour image). Piece of cake.

Even easier would be to just check the URL for that image and then copy it to your site and then post about it. Credit appreciated but not required.

Posted by Ozguru at January 23, 2004 07:01 AM

Comments

Apple's "Cantonese Dictation Kit" was even easier but it was designed for MacOS 7/8, sort of worked in 9 but never made it into Classic or OSX. If anyone knows of a Cantonese Dictation Kit for Mac OS X - let me know.

Posted by: ozguru at January 23, 2004 07:01 AM