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Re: Chinese <--> English Translation Programs?

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From: Huan
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:07
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On 2005-01-01, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> wrote in 
<2ywBd.40289$yv2.32446@fe2.texas.rr.com>:
> Gary Morrison wrote:
>
>> Written Chinese to written English and the reverse.  I'm assuming that 
>> the written-Chinese character usage is largely the same between 
>> Mandarin-speakers and Cantonese-speakers.
>
> However, if I'm mistaken in that regard, the answer to your question is 
> "Mandarin."
>
> Oh, perhaps where dialect matters relates to how the Chinese words would 
> be entered from a US keyboard?
>
Yeah.  I think there's other methods, but I use the first one I found 
when poking around in OS X, which is to enter the pinyin and use the 
arrow keys to find the characters you want.

-- 
Huan
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