Month: May 2008

I should have done this which converts the database tables from latin1 to utf8, everything should be happy now.

seems I needed to do this to make it work

On trying to work out how to do tone I found out you need to enable extended usa keyboard on the mac then you can use.

ā Alt-a for first tone
á Alt-e for second tone
ǎ Alt-v for third tone
à Alt-` for forth tone

And hear are the characters I need to write.

人 rén people, person
十 shí ten
匕 bǐ dagger
中 Zhōng middle
日 rì sun
贝 bèi shell
玉 yù jade
矢 shǐ arrow
生 shēng to born suffix denoting person
者 zhě Person; thing