'''Things Chinese''' is a guide to working with Chinese in Tcl.



** See Also  **

   [Chinlish]:   

   [taiku: a little Chinese editor]:   

   [Chinese numbers]:   

   [Fun with Chinese characters]:   

   [Animated Kanji]:   

   [fan2jian and jian2fan]:   

   [Easy input of Pinyin]:   

   [Pinyin, ASCII to Unicode Converter]:   



** Misc **

A Chinese website dedicated to Tcl/Tk: http://www.tclchina.com/ (2006-05-30) (dead, 2014-09-07)

中文成?

----

[RS] 2007-08-29: Here's a converter from Chinese characters in Unicode to decimal GB2312 numbers:

======
proc c2gb str {
    set res {} 
    foreach c [split $str {}] {
        binary scan [encoding convertto gb2312 $c] cc a b
        set a [expr {($a+0x100) % 0x100 - 160}]
        set b [expr {($b+0x100) % 0x100 - 160}]
        lappend res [format %02d%02d $a $b]
    }
    set res
}
% c2gb 上海
4147 2603
======

----

[ZU] 2007-08-09: Could you please tell me how can I use that, wenn I use [TclKit] zu show some character with chinise charaters? And I have tried 

 puts \u2603  ;# the second nummber above

And I get ☃.  May I ask why?


[AM] 2007-08-31: That is interesting in itself too :) but the problem is really that Unicode expects hexadecimal
numbers, whereas the above are decimal.

[RS]: Yes. The Unicodes of these example characters can be [scan%|%scanned] out:
 % u2x 上海
 \u4E0A\u6D77

----

[LV] 2008-01-31:
I was asked, today, whether Tcl supports the GBK or GB18030 chinese character encodings.
I don't see it among the encodings listed when I type:

===
$ tclsh8.5
% encoding names
cp860 cp861 cp862 cp863 tis-620 cp864 cp865 cp866 gb12345 gb2312-raw cp949 cp950 cp869 
dingbats ksc5601 macCentEuro cp874 macUkraine jis0201 gb2312 euc-cn euc-jp macThai iso8859-10 
jis0208 iso2022-jp macIceland iso2022 iso8859-13 jis0212 iso8859-14 iso8859-15 cp737 
iso8859-16 big5 euc-kr macRomania macTurkish gb1988 iso2022-kr macGreek ascii cp437 macRoman 
iso8859-1 iso8859-2 iso8859-3 macCroatian koi8-r iso8859-4 ebcdic iso8859-5 cp1250 macCyrillic 
iso8859-6 cp1251 macDingbats koi8-u iso8859-7 cp1252 iso8859-8 cp1253 iso8859-9 cp1254 cp1255 
cp850 cp1256 cp932 identity cp1257 cp852 macJapan cp1258 shiftjis utf-8 cp855 cp936 symbol cp775 unicode cp857
===

Has anyone out there worked out the issues?

----

[WJP] 2008-01-31

iconv supports this GBK and GB18030, so it might be helpful to look at the source,
or possibly just run iconv.

<<categories>> Human Language | i18n - Tcl for the world | Natural Languages