Re: Gnu yes, donkey no ?

[Yue Wu]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:53:34 +0800, Roger Price wrote:

> I'm unable to enter the simplified chinese character 驴 (a donkey)
> as lu:2 [1] using Emacs input method chinese-tonepy-punct. The
> workaround is to use lu:5 which is not very correct.
>
> C-h C-a reports "This is GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, X
> toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2010-04-01 on build17"
>
> I set the input method using set-input-method 'chinese-tonepy-punct
> which gives me the mode line indicator 拼符.
>
> The poor donkey is not as impressive as a gnu, but a useful animal.
> Why can't he have his lu:2?


How about lv? v is to represented as u: in most input methods.

> Roger
>
> [1] Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 现代汉语词典 5th edition 2007 page 890.


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