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Guest ns666ns@yahoo.com
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Hi, I am using english windows XP, I use chinese filenames on my

computer

 

the problem is, when I sort files in XP, it seems to sort against

unicode values, not based on chinese pronunciation pinyin (or the

chinese GB2312/GB18030 code). some apps also sort chinese the same

way.

 

any idea how to set that? I played with language settings etc no

success

 

thank you very much

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Guest Ken Blake, MVP
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Re: how to sort chinese file names based on pronunciation?

 

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:30:32 -0700, ns666ns@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi, I am using english windows XP, I use chinese filenames on my

> computer

>

> the problem is, when I sort files in XP, it seems to sort against

> unicode values, not based on chinese pronunciation pinyin (or the

> chinese GB2312/GB18030 code).

 

 

I know nothing about sorting in Chinese, but the way you describe it

sorting is exactly the way I would expect it to do it. I doubt very

much if it has the capability of doing it the way you want.

 

> some apps also sort chinese the same

> way.

>

> any idea how to set that? I played with language settings etc no

> success

>

> thank you very much

 

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

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Guest Allan
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Re: how to sort chinese file names based on pronunciation?

 

 

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message

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> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:30:32 -0700, ns666ns@yahoo.com wrote:

>

>> Hi, I am using english windows XP, I use chinese filenames on my

>> computer

>>

>> the problem is, when I sort files in XP, it seems to sort against

>> unicode values, not based on chinese pronunciation pinyin (or the

>> chinese GB2312/GB18030 code).

>

>

> I know nothing about sorting in Chinese, but the way you describe it

> sorting is exactly the way I would expect it to do it. I doubt very

> much if it has the capability of doing it the way you want.

>

>

>> some apps also sort chinese the same

>> way.

>>

>> any idea how to set that? I played with language settings etc no

>> success

>>

>> thank you very much

>

> --

> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

The chinese characters have a transliteration into roman characters . He

would have to find the corresponding transliterated form of the character

and sort on that field instead. I am sure someone else has done this

already; try a dictionary of chinese-english for example.


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