Re: 汉语拼音的音标表示问题

[wen@japan.email.ne.jp]

thomas> GB2312 has them starting at 0xA8A1, but they are 1) fullwidth, 2)
thomas> lowercase only, and 3) e's and E's with circumflexes *and* tone marks are
thomas> missing.  Big5 doesn't have any, but Big5-HKSCS has them starting at
thomas> 0x8856, and its a complete set (upper and lowercase; e's/E's with
thomas> circumflexes *and* tone marks), although it is still fullwidth.  If you
thomas> use Unicode, you can have them all, lowercase and uppercase, except for a
thomas> few tone combinations with the e's/E's with circumflexes (but you can use
thomas> combining diacritics to create those).

Thanks so much for your helpful information. How to input them? 
Is it possible to input them by Chinput?  

thomas> The etl*-sisheng.pcf fonts in the xfonts-intl-chinese package also contain
thomas> "sisheng" (I forget which ones exactly), but in a font-specific encoding.

Yes, I can type and show them only in Emacs with Wnn.

Regards,

--Wen
wen@japan.email.ne.jp