Introducing Primezero i18n Terminal For Professionals, Something New
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Archive for the ‘character’ Category
Forgive Me For The Following Neologisms: Pinyintype and Hanzitype
Monday, February 11th, 2008
Let me start off by saying: Forgive me for coining terms I have no business coining. 
however….
- Coin #1: pinyintype
- Coin #2: hanzitype
I have found no other way (yet) to describe romanization and phonetics OR the various Chinese character sets OR several groups of data I have been processing, interpreting and converting in various applications.
Furthermore, this is not directly related to PrimezeroTools. I am just discussing abstract concepts of pinyintypes and hanzitypes.
A pinyintype is any romanization or phonetics used to help a user pronounce a Chinese character in any given dialect.
I am thinking about creating a series of getters and setters (force of habit from writing Java) and allow users to simply move between all the various pinyintypes without effort like we do with typecasting.
- $newtype = (int)$variable;
- $newpinyintype = (zhuyin)$string <— like this? (not too far-fetched)
Hanzitypes describe the various sets and subsets of Chinese characters. Any group of Chinese character can be a hanzitype. For example, you have the simplified character set as a hanzitype. You can switch to traditional characters (ftz) just with this expression:
- $newhanzitype = (ftz)$string;
or back to simplified characters (jtz) with this expression:
- $otherhanzitype = (jtz)$newhanzitype;
//(difficult because this would be a one-to-many relationship)
or if I want this expression in characters only used in a given culture or context, that would be a hanzitype:
- $context_type = (culture)$otherhanzitype;
Adsotrans Unveils New Chinese Annotation Engine, Introduces Improved Input Method For Editors
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Adsotrans makes it easy to annotate Chinese articles and read them inline with context.
David’s new engine is faster and click-friendly.
I have added the new link on Primezero Chinese Tools search results.
Sample Query: Happy New Year
Click Adsotrans link to get your annotation.
Click on the characters to reveal an edit window. Neat!
PrimezeroTools Chinese Dictionary Plugin Overview Now Online
Friday, February 8th, 2008
As a capstone to my milestones, I like to create PowerPoint presentations.
(Geez, what a geek).
There is something quite Zen-like when developing with PowerPoint on Google Docs. Simple yet just what I need.
They give me a chance to reflect on the product description and whether I met the basic requirements of a project. Under 10 slides of course — 9 to be exact. I just wanted to explain PrimezeroTools and cast it as a Chinese dictionary plugin. I was going to say “helper class”, but that is not as smooth as “plugin” … however plugin is WAY overused today like FRAMEWORK … *shivers down my spine *brrrr
Here is the GoogleDocs PowerPoint presentation:
Now, Introducing The Underwhelming HanziBlox … Huh?
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I am happy to introduce my boring, drab and underwhelming Chinese Character Block API. Yes, there is more coming, but I thought I would just kick this off. Ｉcalled it HanziBlox.
Start Using It Right Now
Just type the following URI into your URL Bar in your browser and get going!
http://www.primezero.com/labs/hanziblox/build?h=我
HanziBlox? Why HanziBlox?
Because I Googled HanziBlox and came up with Zero Results. That’s why.
The following names are finalists for naming this new API:
- Something On Rails
- PyBlocks
- JBlockaroo
- Poof
Ok, not really. but you get my point.
I’m not funny.
I’ll get back to work.
