Questions related to specific aspects of machine-processing Chinese language, or to code that is executed under Chinese localization settings.
Questions tagged [chinese-locale]
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How can I get rid of having to prefix a WHERE query with 'N' for Unicode strings?
When searching for a string in our database where the column is of type nvarchar, specifying the 'N' prefix in the query nets some results. Leaving it out does not. I am trying the search for a Simplified Chinese string in a database that previously…

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getString() always return the default language strings. How to check is the app is looking for the localised string file?
Based on the Android documentation :
https://developer.android.com/training/basics/supporting-devices/languages
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localization
I have created a ressource file for the zh locale :
And I have…

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How to display/print Chinese characters with knitr::spin
I have recently began using knitr::spin() to quickly convert my code into into html reports and so far it has been amazing.
However, I have run into a problem when attempting to include Chinese characters in either text or the code sections. Here is…

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Why doesn't this substring work in Chinese?
Why doesn't this substring work in Chinese?
I'm getting the correct results for other languages but in Chinese I got an empty string.
countryID = "奥地利(销售超过3万5千欧元)";
countryID.substring(0, countryID.indexOf('(') - 1);
countryID =…

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Special - Chinese characters in string
I am doing language translation in code.
self.title.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedString(@"Q%ld", nil), (long)quizNumber];
I have added localization which works fine in French case but in Chinese '%ld' comes on the screen.
If I put…

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Any JTextField descendant or replacement who covers more Chinese characters?
I'm working on an application, which uses a JTextfield object as a text input component. During some tests I've seen that not all Chinese characters can be shown using this component.
At first this seems normal: some Chinese characters are that…

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How to URL encode Chinese characters?
I used the following code to encode parameters list:
params['username'] = user
params['q'] = q
params = urllib.quote(params)
But it doesn't work when q is equal to 香港. The following error is returned:
'ascii' codec can't encode characters in…

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How to find the first Chinese character in a java string
How to find the first Chinese character in a java string
example:
String str = "xing 杨某某";
How can i get the index of first Chinese character 杨 in above str.
Thanks!

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Viewing Chinese/Korean/Lunar birthday on org-agenda?
I have a few people around me who use Lunar Calendar instead of Gregorian one, so my current set up:
*** Birthdays
:PROPERTIES:
:CATEGORY: Birthday
:END:
**** NAME <1980-09-09 Thu +1y>
fails to show up at the right time on org-agenda.
I know that…

THIS USER NEEDS HELP
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Locale fallbacks in Rails 4 not working
I am building a Rails 4 site for a client in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and China.
The locale code for a Chinese speaking Malaysian is zh-MY.
I would like to keep a base zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) set of locale files and for zh-MY to fallback to…

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How to read and output Hindi in R console?
I have been trying to read and output a Hindi .txt file into the R console but I get gibberish. This is what I did so far.
hindi <- read.table('hindi_text.txt')
hindi
1 कà¥à¤¯à¤¾ बोल रहे हो तà¥à¤®
Then I typed this. It still…

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How to refer to a Chinese character in C code
I have a C program that currently reads in Chinese text and stores them as type wchar_t. What I want to do is look for a specific character in the text, but I am not sure how to refer to the character in the code.
I essentially want to say:
wchar_t…

Alex Hansen
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DomPDF generation for chinese characters
I am trying to generate a PDF that will contain Chinese characters using dompdf.
Here is my code:
require('dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php');
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
def("DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED", true);
$html = ' …

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libGDX, printing non-western fonts
I'm in the middle of finishing my libGDX android game and I have problems with making localizations.
I want my game to be localized in Polish, English, Arabic and Chinese. To do this, I'm using libgdx I18NBundle which works perfectly fine. I have no…

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Using sed, how can a regular expression match Chinese characters?
I decided to post a question, after spending quite some time and still not figuring out the problem. Also read a bunch of seemingly related posts, none really fit my simple (?) problem.
So I have a possibly large text file (>1000 lines) that…

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