Microsoft Corporation RM-158 Manuale Utente

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Use Stroke input method

1 Input strokes: The strokes constituting Chinese 

characters have been divided into five categories: 
Horizontal, Vertical, Left-falling, Dot and Turning. 
Each category corresponds to a number key  
respectively ,  , , , 
You could press the number keys to input the strokes 
according to the standard stroke order. When you 
start inputting, the Chinese input window will be 
shown on the screen, which shows your input strokes 
and the candidate Chinese characters matching to 
your input strokes.
If you are not sure about a certain stroke 
classification, press

  as a substitution for that 

stroke, then continue with the subsequent strokes. A 
question mark appears in the input area to represent 
that stroke.

2 Input Chinese character: The first character in the 

candidate list is highlighted, press

 to input this 

character. If your desired character does not locate in 
the first position of the candidate list, you should 
press the right scroll key to activate the candidate list 
(the candidates in the list will have numbering on it, 
and the second character will be highlighted), then 
you could either press the number key matching to 
the character numbering to input it, or press the 

relevant direction scroll key to find and highlight your 
desired character and then press

 to input it.

While your input candidate is inserted in the text input 
window, the Chinese input window will be closed and 
the predictive list will be shown at the same time.
When the candidate list exceeds one line, there will be 
up and down arrows showing at the right of the 
candidate list, you could press the up or down scroll 
key to view the previous or next line of the candidate 
list, while the candidate list is not activated, so you 
could still revise your input strokes during viewing.

3 Input predictive character:Please refer to the 5th 

step in "Use Pinyin input method" on page 51.

Stroke input example: To input 你好

1 Enter into the text editing window for writing short 

message or any other possible position for inputting 
Chinese character, and switch to stroke input mode.

2 Input the strokes for 你 : Press 

,

,

 in 

sequence.  

3 The character 你 will be shown in the candidate list, if 

this character locates in the 1st highlighted position of 
the candidate list, you could directly press

 to input 

it, otherwise, you have to firstly press the right scroll 
key to highlight this character and then press

 to 

input this character.