If user disable the "Use Custom Input Method", UniText will behave just the same as any other Worldscript II compatible application: as user select the CJK font, the Apple's input method will be used (if user has Apple's language support in the system). To use UniText custom input method, set the preference as shown, note: Korean user should disable the "Input with Association" and "Input with Wildcard" options.
To invoke the UniText custom input method, simply set your text to one of the CJK fonts. Remember that for PanALE fbit font, Beijing corresponds to GB2312 font, Taipei corresponds to Big5 with Eten extension font, Tokyo corresponds to shift-JIS font and Seoul corresponds to KS5601 font. If Worldscript II is not installed on your system, only PanALE fbit fonts and Elegance truetype fonts will be recognized as CJK fonts, and therefore, get corresponding input method invoked as they are selected in the font menu. For our example, set font to Taipei from Font menu, at the bottom of you screen, the input method will appear:
This menu is displayed as user clicks on input method selection popup menu. User can use mouse to navigate through the selection, or just use Control-number (see the key label above) to select. For example, user can quickly switch to toned pinyin input method by simply type Control-2.
Select the #2 input method (toned pinyin) just for example:
type he2, you will see a list of choice shown above. Now, type 5 (use the main keyboard, not the number keypad at right side of some keyboards), (Note: there is a * appended at the end of each keystroke, this indicates that user enable the "Input with Wildcard Search" in the Feature option of Preference dialog.)
1) Punctuation Input:
Although some of the Chinese punctuation/symbol are already part of the basic input method, there are cases when user does not have the desired symbols for selection.
For frequently used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-shift-space to toggle between the normal input method and this
full width symbol input method.
For rarely used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-period ".".
2) Search With Phrases:
There are two phrases modules in UniText package:
User must set the "Input with Association" in the Feature option in Preference dialog. These phrase search will greatly improve the Chinese input environment.
3) Misc.:
In the pinyin input method, user should use "u:" to enter some characters such as in character "woman" with this special vowel.
4) Recommended Input Methods:
The fastest input method for GB Chinese: Five Stroke
The easiest input method for GB Chinese: toned Pinyin
This menu is displayed as user clicks on input method selection popup menu. User can use mouse to navigate through the selection, or just use Control-number (see the key label above) to select. For example, user can quickly switch to toned pinyin input method by simply type Control-3.
Select the #3 input method (Eten Zuyin) just for
example:
type ti, you will see a list of choice shown above. Now, type 3 (use the main keyboard, not the number keypad at right side of some keyboards), (Note: there is a * appended at the end of each keystroke, this indicates that user enable the "Input with Wildcard Search" in the Feature option of Preference dialog.)
1) Punctuation Input:
Although some of the Chinese punctuation/symbol are already part of the basic input method, there are cases when user does not have the desired symbols for selection.
For frequently used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-shift-space to toggle between the normal input method and this
full width symbol input method.
For rarely used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-period ".".
2) Search With Phrases:
There are two phrases modules in UniText package:
User must set the "Input with Association" in the Feature option in Preference dialog. These phrase search will greatly improve the Chinese input environment.
3) Misc.:
In the pinyin input method, user should use "u:" to enter some characters such as in character "woman" with this special vowel.
4) Recommended Input Methods:
The fastest input method for GB Chinese: Canjie
The easiest input method for GB Chinese: Zuyin or
Pinyin
Added are 
and 
input
modules while using mostly Kunrei romanisation and some of Hepburn
romanisation. Because these 2 modules support auto-input, the Hepburn romanisations
which do not correspond to a unique kana is omited. 
input module fully supports both romanisations. Each valid roman letter
strokes will produce a choice of
and .
input module
allows user to key-in in English and produces corresponding .
Again, maximum 5 letters are allows, and choices matched with these initial
letters are presented in listing window.
input module
is based on Kanji character's .
User keys-in the name of a
in Kunrei romanisation system, a choice list will be presented. This is
useful if one does not know how to pronounce a Kanji but knows how it looks.
All other input method modules use strictly the Kunrei
romanisation system for keys-in. The maximum input length is 5 letter,
remaining roman letters if any are not considered. Any Japanese matched
to these 5 initial Kunrei romanisation will be presented in the list window.
Strongly recommended is the 
input method for commonly used phrase or single character. 
input module contains commonly used single Kanji. This dictionary is far
from complete. Any one who would like to make a contribution to this dictionary
should contact author for the dictionary source file for this input module. 
and 
are for
commonly used names for places and people.
The NEC default keyboard layout is included. Note 
is "nn" instead of "n". This is intended to avoid troubles in auto-input
of and .
For consistency, this "nn" keyboard definition is used through out.
This release is only a beta release. Please send your bug report or complains to xlz@kagi.com.
Currently following input methods are supported for
Japanese-Shift-JIS input method:
This menu is displayed as user clicks on input method selection popup menu. User can use mouse to navigate through the selection, or just use Control-number (see the key label above) to select. For example, user can quickly switch to toned pinyin input method by simply type Control-3.
Select the #3 input method (Iroha) just for example:
type hirog, you will see a list of choice shown above. Now, type 8 (use the main keyboard, not the number keypad at right side of some keyboards), (Note: there is a * appended at the end of each keystroke, this indicates that user enable the "Input with Wildcard Search" in the Feature option of Preference dialog.)
1) Punctuation Input:
Although some of the Japanese punctuation/symbol are already part of the basic input method, there are cases when user does not have the desired symbols for selection.
For frequently used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-shift-space to toggle between the normal input method and this
full width symbol input method.
For rarely used symbols, use the 
input method. User can activate this input method through clicking the
corresponding input method selection menu, or just type the keystroke combo:
Control-period ".".
2) Search With Phrases:
There are one phrases module in UniText package:
User must set the "Input with Association" in the Feature option in Preference dialog. These phrase search will greatly improve the Chinese input environment.
3) Recommended Input Method:
The fastest input method for Japanese: Iroha
4) Keyboard Layout Reference: (Set
to Shift_JIS)
Currently, UniText only support Korean standard 2-set keyboard, although automata is not yet supported. Hit return or space after each character input for proper input. Combinations are allowed as following to avoid shift-keys (capital letters).
