I have problem in inputting CHinese text on Limewire 8 (English version). It comes out with square boxes when I typing chinese texts. I use Window XP and it supports chinese text actually. Can someone advise me how to resolve this problem please. Thank you.

Why don't you set LW's language to Chinese. LW's menu View>Language. It sounds to me you haven't got your system set up properly for asian text.

My asian fonts work fine in LW. Chinese search ... chinese results. No blocks. By the way, do you have asian fonts activated for your browsers. Sorry I'm not sure why. Perhaps Verdyp will know.

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Unfortunately, I cannot test Limewire on Mac OS Classic or OSX.
So I don't know which possible issues exist on this platform related to the international support of the Java port for MacOSX.
So ask for support to the Lmewire dev team, may be Sam has the tools to test it.

I have no problem with Chinese on Windows XP, even on my French version, because I have installed it with the support for complex scripts and asian scripts, and I have the necessary fonts too.
For now I have not experimented this message saying that a character is not supported.

It may happen that your Mac only has fonts for Chinese and Basic Latin, but it lacks some fonts for extended Latin, and it may cause this Latin extended character to not be supported.

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The only other thing I can think of is that you put chinese as top priority for language (forgot to emphasise that before.) On menu bar, select the chinese flag (also in prefs>international have chinese as 1st choice.) You can easily swap it back later.

What do you mean here?

Is that because Chinese is the most widely spoken language of the world? True, but it is not the most widely WRITTEN one.
Also, there are far less Chinese users on Gnutella than what you think. If there's a priority to give, it's to list English first (only because it is the default and guaranteed to contain all resources), and then sort the languages by proximity so that users can find them.

My opinion is that after sorting languages, ideographic-written ones are very easily to see out of the list of other alphabetic scripts, notably if Chinese (simple and traditional) are grouped at end of the list just after Japanese and Korean...

I have just sent a patch to Limewire that orders this list of languages by script proximity, so that all Latin-written ones will be together, followed by other alphabetic scripts, then semitic abjads then indian scripts and finaly far-east asian scripts (and possibly groups them, but if grouping is enabled, I am not sure how to label these groups: with the charset class name, like on the current LimeWire translate page?)


I already have a mapping from all countries or territories to continental regions.

I have another resource in work to create a nearly exhaustive lsit of locales that list all official or regional languages used by all countries or dependant territories of the world... This would allow selecting languages by continental regions and then by country, so that users would be able to select the continental region and country, then only one of the languages spoken in that country or territory.

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There is no Chinese language option on my downloaded LW. How to fit it? Many thanks.

The language will be in it's own language. And chinese is at the bottom of the language list. Taiwanese at the very bottom.

Hi there!

I have tried the method you have suggested for Chinese search, but still nothing comes up.

Under View> Languages there wasn't the Chinese option that you kindly posted on your pic. So, how do I download Chinese into LimeWire such that I can search for chinese music?

Thanks!

Did you get your LimeWire from here? http://www.limewire.com/english/content/download.shtml

If not, then that might be why. I'm using the LW beta 4.11.2 & it shows on that as the attachment below shows. I can't remember but after changing language you may need to restart LW. You might also need to have that language to be supported by your computer's OS, I'm not sure.

As far as searching Chinese music goes, I find it's just as easy to use Pinyin. If you know pinyin then you can simply use the english set up.

(oops for some reason it won't upload ... I might have to redo it.)