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Lui Kai
Better Than You
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Posted - 2009.01.09 08:14:00 -
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On a completely and entirely unrelated note ( ) - could anyone tell me how to type "易建联" without having to copy/paste? |
Sedious Bloke
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Posted - 2009.01.09 08:18:00 -
[32]
"I wouldn't mind being subjected to all possible restrictions"
would this include tanks in your den by any chance? |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.09 08:19:00 -
[33]
 Originally by: Sedious Bloke
"I wouldn't mind being subjected to all possible restrictions"
would this include tanks in your den by any chance?
Har har verry funny  |
Joe Starbreaker
Starbreaker Frigateers
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Posted - 2009.01.09 08:22:00 -
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Originally by: Marcus Xavier
Originally by: Yakia TovilToba
Why would you do this ? Or can you speak and type chinese ? Do you have chinese keyboard, like in James Bond "Tomorrow never die" ?
It's not necessary to use the "James Bond" keyboard. They do have stickies and software.
In fact in China they use the American style keyboards. They type in a romanized version of Chinese that they learn with (because there is no way in Chinese to teach the pronunciation of characters, they use our letters to do this). However, in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong, they have more exotic keyboards because (a) Taiwan defiantly refuses to learn the romanization system that the mainland adopted and (b) Hong Kong people speak cantonese which no one can describe the pronunciation of.
This leads to the unusual circumstance that I, as an American who is learning chinese, can actually type chinese faster than many of my HK or Taiwan friends when we are using instant messenging.
Anyway, just use English in the game and you'll be ok. |
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CCP Whisper
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:15:00 -
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As others have pointed out earlier in the thread you need a Chinese ID number to create a trial. If you can find one that works from somewhere then there is really nothing stopping you from logging onto Serenity from anywhere in the world. Chribba's method of running a TQ client at the same time to aid with navigation was particularly inspired, but I need to warn you that not all menus have items in the same order. :) |
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Ishihiro tanaka
Amarr
Enrave
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:29:00 -
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Apparently, the internet is full of stories of how to obtain or at least calculate a shines ID number:
Linkage
Haven't tried it yet, but a chinese client download link, coupled with this link and some research, just might get you the chinese serenity
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Yarrion Yuwen
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:31:00 -
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Originally by: Joe Starbreaker
Originally by: Marcus Xavier
Originally by: Yakia TovilToba
Why would you do this ? Or can you speak and type chinese ? Do you have chinese keyboard, like in James Bond "Tomorrow never die" ?
It's not necessary to use the "James Bond" keyboard. They do have stickies and software.
In fact in China they use the American style keyboards. They type in a romanized version of Chinese that they learn with (because there is no way in Chinese to teach the pronunciation of characters, they use our letters to do this). However, in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong, they have more exotic keyboards because (a) Taiwan defiantly refuses to learn the romanization system that the mainland adopted and (b) Hong Kong people speak cantonese which no one can describe the pronunciation of.
This leads to the unusual circumstance that I, as an American who is learning chinese, can actually type chinese faster than many of my HK or Taiwan friends when we are using instant messenging.
Anyway, just use English in the game and you'll be ok.
Are you referring to the Hanyu Pinyin as the romanised Chinese format? It's a more accurate and thus useful way of translating the pronunciation of tonal Chinese.
As to answer Liu Kai's question, for Windows there is a "Regional and Language Options" settings in the Control Panel. You can enable Pinyin to write in Chinese characters. But that only works within MS applications. I have not had any success using it on the local chat so far....
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:34:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Whisper
As others have pointed out earlier in the thread you need a Chinese ID number to create a trial.
So.. ahem... *cough* does it have to be an actual ID number, or can it be any number that's in the valid format and (yet) unused ?
Well, not exactly 100% legal but close enough, I guess 
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Create a character || Fit a ship || Get some ISK |
Ishihiro tanaka
Amarr
Enrave
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:52:00 -
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Give it a shot, it might just work. If it doesn't, you simply won't be able to sign up, I don't expect the chinese government going on a wild goose chase..
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Jeto
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:53:00 -
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Hmm... Interesting topic. It's not surprising how much misinformation there is about how the Chinese is input into computer and how the MMOs work there in China.
About the keyboard, We use the standard keyboard as everyone else in the world. There is NO Chinese keyboard, just different Chinese input methods, i.e. different letters correspond to different characters, either a pronunciation or word component. With different combination of letters, you get a word in Chinese. Windows comes with a Microsoft Pinyin IME. That's one input method to type Chinese. Type zhongwen under that method and you get (中文）. Simple as that. There are some keyboards with labels corresponding to the specific input method, so you don't have to memorize which letter correspond to what.
There's a law in China to limit minors online time per day playing MMOs. There are a lot of social problems with minors spending too much time online playing games. The ID numbers is required when registering an account to identify whether you're over 18 or not, not to prevent people outside China playing MMOs. There's no limitation to adults playing MMOs. For people under 18, you have 6 hrs, i think, per day to play a game. After which, your characters gains will be lowered, i.e. less exp or gold gained while in the game. A fake ID number won't pass the registration for sure, but you can always google one to by pass that.
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Jowen Datloran
Caldari
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.01.09 09:58:00 -
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Originally by: Lui Kai
On a completely and entirely unrelated note () - could anyone tell me how to type "易建联" without having to copy/paste?
That is simple.
Install the east-asian language package for Windows and change your language setting to Chinese and your keyboard setting to convert from pinyin into symbol characters. This fancy convertion program is automatically installed with the language package.
Now you only need to know how the symbol characters are spelled in pinyin. |
Jeto
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Posted - 2009.01.09 10:00:00 -
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Originally by: Jowen Datloran
Originally by: Lui Kai
On a completely and entirely unrelated note () - could anyone tell me how to type "易建联" without having to copy/paste?
That is simple.
Install the east-asian language package for Windows and change your language setting to Chinese and your keyboard setting to convert from pinyin into symbol characters. This fancy convertion program is automatically installed with the language package.
Now you only need to know how the symbol characters are spelled in pinyin.
yi jian lian ==> 易 建 联
word by word, :) |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.09 10:10:00 -
[43]
So anybody got a Chinese client download that *actually* works ?
I found some links to some FTP servers, but it won't download from them...
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Ishihiro tanaka
Amarr
Enrave
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2009.01.09 10:28:00 -
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I found a BT download thingy, but I'm at work so I can't do a lot here.
BT chinese client
I'm trying to download the classic client as we speak, but at 811 bytes/sec it's not at all fast :) takes 188 hours to complete hahaha.
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Stealing Honest
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Posted - 2009.01.09 10:52:00 -
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Linkage |
Ticondrius
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Posted - 2009.01.09 10:58:00 -
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I can't even figure out how to get the Chinese characters to not be squares with the character hexcode in them on websites.
Anyone want to clue me in? Google's not been any help, unless I just don't know what to look for. |
Jowen Datloran
Caldari
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.01.09 11:20:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Ticondrius
I can't even figure out how to get the Chinese characters to not be squares with the character hexcode in them on websites.
Anyone want to clue me in? Google's not been any help, unless I just don't know what to look for.
Install the East-Asian language package under Language Settings in Windows. |
Chukk Flakk
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Posted - 2009.01.09 11:30:00 -
[48]
Lets all get Chinese ID numbers and log on one day and just suicide gank all the people we see in noob frigs. I'm sure that would **** of the chinese to no end.
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Atiana Obaani
Tomoe Laboratories
Celestial Imperative
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Posted - 2009.01.09 11:44:00 -
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Originally by: Chukk Flakk
Lets all get Chinese ID numbers and log on one day and just suicide gank all the people we see in noob frigs. I'm sure that would **** of the chinese to no end.
This is the only reason this thread has finally managed to deliver. |
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.09 12:54:00 -
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Eh, I gave up trying to download the client... I was getting 5 kb/sec at best no matter what source I picked 
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Create a character || Fit a ship || Get some ISK |
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Ishihiro tanaka
Amarr
Enrave
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2009.01.09 13:02:00 -
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I'll try once I get home tonight.. does the BT client work at all Akita?
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.01.09 13:06:00 -
[52]
4 seeds 5 peers last time I tried it... 2-3 kb/sec average... bleh.
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Create a character || Fit a ship || Get some ISK |
Captain Pompous
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Posted - 2009.01.09 13:41:00 -
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Originally by: rValdez5987
日本語を話します. I don't understand a lick of Chinese however.
はい、そだね ：）
me neither. but at least it is nice getting the general gist of written chinese. |
Lui Kai
Better Than You
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Posted - 2009.01.09 17:26:00 -
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Akita - in answer to your question, apparently any valid ID code works. The problem is the account creation software also requires a "valid" chinese name, and you can not copy/paste into those fields. So I'm still trying to figure out how to type a valid chinese name at the mo :p
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Lui Kai
Better Than You
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Posted - 2009.01.09 18:07:00 -
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Edited by: Lui Kai on 09/01/2009 18:12:42
Nevermind - I'm in :)
Edit: My god. We thought we had it bad...their cheapest 60 day GTC is currently selling at 944,444,444 |
jam6549
Cold Blooded Killers
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Posted - 2009.01.09 18:34:00 -
[56]
Originally by: Lui Kai
Edited by: Lui Kai on 09/01/2009 18:12:42
Nevermind - I'm in :)
Edit: My god. We thought we had it bad...their cheapest 60 day GTC is currently selling at 944,444,444
tell us moar, achura! |
Lui Kai
Better Than You
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Posted - 2009.01.09 18:37:00 -
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Originally by: jam6549
Originally by: Lui Kai
Edited by: Lui Kai on 09/01/2009 18:12:42
Nevermind - I'm in :)
Edit: My god. We thought we had it bad...their cheapest 60 day GTC is currently selling at 944,444,444
tell us moar, achura!
In due time. I'm taking notes and screenshots. Will post stuff when it's not 8,000 microposts of "Wow, and this! Wow, and that!" |
Joe Starbreaker
Starbreaker Frigateers
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Posted - 2009.01.09 21:02:00 -
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Originally by: Yarrion Yuwen
Are you referring to the Hanyu Pinyin as the romanised Chinese format? It's a more accurate and thus useful way of translating the pronunciation of tonal Chinese.
As to answer Liu Kai's question, for Windows there is a "Regional and Language Options" settings in the Control Panel. You can enable Pinyin to write in Chinese characters. But that only works within MS applications. I have not had any success using it on the local chat so far....
You need to enable the Microsoft Pinyin IME, it works for any program in Windows XP, including EVE. With EVE there's a bit of a graphical bug, you can't see the characters as you're building them, but if you use common words they'll show up. |
Joe Starbreaker
Starbreaker Frigateers
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Posted - 2009.01.09 21:04:00 -
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How much do subscriptions cost over there, anyway? And can you buy them with credit card? |
Taak Coram
Gallente
Outdated Host Productions
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Posted - 2009.01.09 21:18:00 -
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Unrelated to logging in, but a valid question nonetheless.
Is it called Serenity as a nod to Firefly? Chinese culture was a major factor in the show.
Even if it wasn't, I'll still believe it is 
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