JPS62154033A - Computer system having language conversion processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute the optional language conversion by providing a language conversion means and a selecting control means. CONSTITUTION:The system is composed of a key input device part 1, a language conversion device part 3 to execute the language conversion, a selecting control device part 2 to output the control signal to designate the language conversion part used for the language conversion, an external input device part 4 which is the other input method and a control device part 6 to output input data, in which the language conversion is necessary, out of the inputted data to the language conversion device part 3, and they are connected mutually through a system bus 5. The language conversion device part 3 is composed of an interface 15 for input and output, language conversion parts A16, B17 and C18 which are supported by an OS and language conversion parts D19 and E20 which are not supported by the OS. The selecting control device part 2 is composed of a conversion selecting part 13 to select the language conversion part used out of the language conversion device part 13 and a selecting control part 14 to control the conversion selecting part 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a computer system having an input processing device that can arbitrarily convert input characters into languages.

[Technical Background and Problems of the Invention] When inputting data from a terminal device, etc., for example, a language (Japanese, Chinese 3B, etc.) that cannot be established by inputting from the keys themselves on a keyboard, or even if the language itself can be input, For languages that require advanced language processing and require some kind of processing of key human data, conventionally, when such a language is input, for example, when Japanese is input, language conversion is performed. If you try to implement it on a computer system, 1. Implement it as a subsystem using a Japanese editor, etc., 2. Implement it as a subroutine using a Japanese input library, etc., 3. Use a Japanese operating system (O8), etc. There were methods such as implementing it as part of standard input/output in O8. In method 1.2 above, you can only benefit from this input means under specific conditions (within a subsystem or under a specific program using a subroutine), but let's realize it with method 3. Then, since it is realized as part of the input means of O8,
Compared to Method 1.2, we were able to enjoy a wide range of benefits such as conversion.

However, method 3 still has the following problems: 1. The man-machine interface of the input method is fixed and cannot meet a wide range of user needs. 2. If you try to realize a language conversion method other than the standard input/output interface of O8 , which cannot be realized with the function of method 3, can only be realized with method 1.2, and is limited to certain conditions, etc. This is a problem because it is a method that only allows specific language conversion. There was.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is
This could not be achieved using the language conversion method using the 8 management method.
An object of the present invention is to provide a computer system having an input processing method that enables arbitrary language conversion.

[Summary of the Invention] In order to achieve the above object, a computer system having a language conversion processing device according to the present invention outputs an instruction indicating necessary language conversion, and selects input data that requires language conversion from input data. control means for selecting and outputting;
translating the input data using at least one language converter specified by a selection control signal to translate the language of the data output from the control means;
language conversion means for outputting the output; and selection control means for outputting the selection i control signal for specifying the language conversion unit used for language conversion based on the command from the control means. It consists of

The language conversion unit in the language 5R conversion means may be a language conversion unit that is not supported by the operating system, and the language conversion unit may optionally combine language conversion units to convert languages as needed. Conversion processing can be performed.

[Embodiment of the Invention] An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawings show the configuration of an embodiment of a computer system according to the present invention. The computer system according to the present invention includes a key human power Vi placement section 1, a language conversion device section 3 for executing language conversion, and a selection control for outputting a control signal for specifying a language conversion section used for language conversion. It consists of a device section 2, an external input device section 4 which is another input method, and a control device section 6 for outputting input data that requires language conversion among the input data to the language conversion device section 3, They are interconnected via a system bus 5.

The key human power device section 1 consists of a keyboard 11 and a keyboard interface 12, and the language conversion device section 3 includes an input/output interface 15 and language conversion sections A16, 817, C18, and O8 supported by O8. Unsupported language converter 019
, E20. The selection system unit 2 includes a conversion selection unit 13 for selecting a language conversion unit to be used from the language conversion unit 3 and a selection unit 14 for controlling the conversion selection unit 13. External input device 8I1
Reference numeral 4 denotes an input means other than the key human power unit 1, which includes a peripheral input/output device or an external device (for example, a host computer) 21, and an interface 22 for inputting data from them.

Next, a description will be given of the language conversion operation of input data in the case where data is input from the key human power device section 3. First, the operation when language conversion is not required, for example, the operation when inputting alphabetic characters, will be explained. At this time, data input from the keyboard 11 is transmitted to the interface 15 of the language conversion device section 3 via the keyboard interface 12 and the system bus 5 under the control of the control device section 6.
is input. However, since language conversion processing is not necessary, no selection control signal is output from the selection control device section 2, so the input data is output to the system bus 5 as is. Next, the operation when language conversion processing is required will be explained. At this time, the language conversion may be performed once or multiple times. When language conversion is performed only once, the operation is as follows. First, a command as to which language converter to use, for example, a command to use the language converter 018, is sent from the MS device unit 6 to the selection control device unit 2.
It is sent to the selection control section 14 of. Thereafter, when data is input from the key human power device section 1, it is input to the interface 15 of the language conversion device section 3, as in the case of no conversion described above. Under the control of the selection control section 14, the conversion selection section 13 outputs a selection control signal to the language conversion device section 3 to indicate that the language conversion section CI8 is to be used for language conversion. The interface 15 sends the input data to the language conversion section 01B in response to the control signal. Language conversion part 0
18 converts the input data into language and sends the result to the interface 15. If it is necessary to perform language conversion multiple times by combining language conversion units, the output will not be output to the interface 15 and other J? When the Xi conversion unit, for example, the language conversion unit 018 and the language conversion unit D19 perform language conversion, the language is output to the old language conversion unit [ ) 19. The language conversion unit [ ) 19 converts the input data into language in the same manner as described above, and outputs the result to the interface 15 .

In this way, certain language conversions can be performed,
Furthermore, if necessary, a plurality of language conversion units may be combined to perform archaic language conversion processing. At this time, the selection control i placement unit 2 operates under the control of the O8, but within the interface 15 of the language conversion device unit 3, it is not directly related to the O8. You can use the old language conversion units [)19 and E20, which are not supported by .

In this embodiment, five language conversion units are shown in the language conversion device unit 3, but the number may be set as necessary. Furthermore, which language converter to use at system startup can be selected as the default processing of O8.

[Effect of the invention] According to the present invention, the following becomes possible.

1. Many types of language conversions are supported.

(For example, Kana-Kanji conversion with a different man-machine interface) 2. It is possible to switch to any language conversion through the selection control unit. (The language converter can be changed depending on the user) 3. As the standard input of O8,
It becomes possible to combine with any language conversion unit created by the user that is not under the control of the .

4. Various types of archaic language converters can be combined in various ways.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawing is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a computer system having a language conversion processing device according to the present invention. 1-key human power equipment section, 2-selective system equipment section, 3-language conversion equipment section, 4-external input device section, 5-system bus, 6-park system equipment section

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A control means for outputting a command indicating the necessary language conversion, selecting and outputting input data requiring language conversion from input data, and converting the language of the data output from the control means. language conversion means for converting the input data into a language using at least one language conversion unit specified by a selection control signal to output the input data;
A language conversion process characterized by comprising a selection control means for outputting the selection control signal for specifying a language conversion unit to be used for language conversion based on the command from the control means. computer system with equipment; (2) A computer system having a language conversion processing device according to claim 1, wherein the language conversion section in the language conversion means can be a language conversion section without support from an operating system. . (3) The language conversion means has the language conversion processing device according to claim 1, which is capable of performing language conversion processing by arbitrarily combining language conversion units as necessary. computer system.