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Posted: **Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:28 am**

After reading this: http://www.logoi.com/notes/symbols_number.html

I realize now why you will have a hard time doing what you want. Sorry for the confusion.

You might try this: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Chines ... ional.html

I am not sure if it will be at all any help to you. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the concept of you having no alphabet. I mean, how do other people create chinese fonts? There has to be some way to do it. Maybe they just use a common set of sounds, and liken it to the english alphabet and map keys and create fonts that way? I don't know, sorry.

Posted: **Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:40 am**

A: All keyboards, no matter what symbols appear on the keycaps themselves, convert individual key presses into intermediate electronic signals that are then interpreted by low-level layers of software into sequences of input characters (or commands). Characters themselves are not hard-wired into keys.

Because the set of Chinese characters is so huge, it is highly impractical (and for any practical keyboard, impossible) to try to map each character to a single key. Therefore, all keyboards for inputting Chinese characters make use of schemes involving sequences of key presses to select specific Chinese characters or sequences of characters from the available repertoire supported.

I was wrong!

ref: http://unicode.org/faq/font_keyboard.html#7

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