Creating Foreign Language Texts with Windows 2000/ 2003/ XP (TX2) 08/2005
3 Input of Text
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TX2/3-42 SINUMERIK 840D sl/840D/840Di/810D Commissioning CNC Part 2 (HMI) (IAM) – 08/2005 Edition
Input
An Input Method Editor (IME) is used for inputting. This is a tool which is used to
put together the pictograms on a European keyboard and can be activated
analogously to a keyboard layout.
You will normally need a translator who speaks the target language as his/her
mother tongue to operate the IME system.
From Windows 2000 it is no longer necessary to have the Windows operating
system in the target language.
Full-width European characters
In the code pages for the East Asian languages, two versions of many of the
European characters (Latin letters, numbers and the characters # $ % & etc.) are
included:
1. Normal (narrow, half-width) version.
This is the set of ASCII characters which is compatible with European code
pages.
2. Double-width (full-width) version.
These versions of the characters are twice as wide and are not compatible with
the ASCII characters.
If you are using characters with a functional significance it is important to use the
ASCII versions.
Correct example (SINUMERIK alarm text, Japanese):
Fig. 3-19
The circled characters are:
014195 0 0 Identifier and attributes
Blank space Syntactical separator
Quotes Text delimiters
%1, %2 Parameter variables
Only the ASCII versions must be used for these characters.
Note
In the remaining part of the text it is quite acceptable to use full-width characters
for better readability (as in the example here for G49).
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