HanyuPad v 0.10
Tool for typing in Chinese with the help of a Dictionary
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Marcel Hassenforder
HanyuPad is a tool for typing in Chinese dedicated to help non native
Chinese speakers and students to
write in Chinese.
Introduction
HanyuPad enables to input Chinese Words in a Notepad like editor, through
searching Words:
- by their pinyin (Phonetic representation),
- by their
KangXi radicals (Graphic representation)
- or by their english definition.
It uses a dictionary to help the non native chinese speaker to select
words amongs candidates by displaying english definition and pinyin
associated to each chinese words matching the search criteria.
It can also be used to retrieve the english translation of Chinese
words located in a sentence.

It communicates with other application using the System
Clipboard (via standard Cut, Copy and Paste), and is able to read/write
Chinese Encoded (GB2312, GBK, Big5, and CNS11643) or Unicode
(UTF8 and UTF16) text files.
License
The actual version of tool is implemented in Java.
It is released as a public domain GPL
application.
It derives from the Java
Notepad sample application
and integrate code from Java Html Help Demo sample application
.
It relies on public domain IME files and dictionaries:
- IME files from Unicon / openCJK project
- Unicode Unihan character database from the Unicode consortium
- CEDICT.u8 chinese-english dictionary
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
- Redistributions of source code must retain
- the above and third parties copyright notice,
- this list of conditions
- and the following disclaimer.
- Redistribution in binary form must reproduct
- the above and third parties copyright notice,
- this End list of conditions
- and the following
disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
with the
distribution.
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