TW200414036A - Editing method for supporting multiple languages - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an editing method for supporting multiple languages, which is applied in the development process of editor contained in an electronic information device having a monitor for making the editor supporting the data editing operation in any language, so that the application software engineer needs not to develop another editor for the language usage on the individual language for different country. The method combines the features of languages from multiple countries, and defines a standard editing interface with indefinitely expandable processing functions in the editor. The editing interface provides the application software engineer with the messages including the input type and the country indicated for the inputted characters, so that the application software engineer can easily develop an editor supporting multiple languages processing, and the editor can support processing on the input, display and deletion of multiple languages.

Description

200414036 V. Description of the invention α) [Technical field to which the invention belongs] The present invention relates to a data processing technology, in particular to a writing interface provided by an editor included in an electronic information device, and executes input string data. Corresponding processing method. [Previous technology] With the advent of the e-commerce era and the vigorous development of information technology, the use of various types of electronic information devices as data processing tools by individuals and companies is becoming increasingly popular. Editing, processing, and other features of the electronic information device itself, such as high accuracy and fast data processing speed, replace the original manual work with a large amount of data and high repetitiveness, thereby improving work efficiency and reducing human-induced The time consumption and cost loss caused by negligence are not conducive to business operations and other factors. The reason is that with the use of electronic information devices and the application scope, the number of electronic information device manufacturers has increased. In terms of time, money, and manpower, in research and development and manufacturing, an electronic information device that meets consumer needs and can be widely praised can be launched. Since most electronic information devices are global consumer products, A type of electronic information device has achieved good sales performance in some marketing regions. Therefore, the manufacturer of the electronic information device is bound to transfer the same type of electronic information device to other regions for sale in order to obtain the maximum commercial benefits. Therefore, the opportunity for each electronic information device manufacturer to seek transnational cooperation and sales channels is Increasingly intensive, and as a manufacturer of electronic information devices, based on the existing technology, the probability of developing electronic information devices suitable for or supporting customers' languages in different countries is also quite frequent.

17106. ptd page 5 200414036 V. Description of the invention (2) Fan. -The main function of the editor included in the electronic information device is to receive, process, and display the string data entered by the user. However, due to the size of the world, the characteristics and usage of languages used in different countries and regions are different. It can be described as very different; for example, in terms of the encoding method of characters, Arabic and English-etc. belong to the unit tuple (Byte) encoding, that is, in terms of the English letter n Aπ, the space occupied by it is 1 Bytes, and Chinese and Korean encoding methods are double-byte encoding, that is, a Chinese character is composed of 2 bytes, while Thai is encoded in unit bytes, but one Thai # Letters can also consist of up to three bytes. In terms of display, Arabic is displayed from right to left, while Chinese, Korean, and Thai are displayed from left to right. As a result, the editor cannot be used universally for the compilation of data between languages. Currently, in order to expand international business, electronic information device manufacturers need to develop electronic information devices suitable for more languages. For this purpose, the current practice of each electronic information device manufacturer is by application software engineers. Based on the existing editor (hereinafter referred to as “A editor”), a new editor (hereinafter referred to as “B editor”) will be developed separately. If an electronic information device suitable for the C language is to be developed in the future , And must also develop a C editor based on the A editor or B editor, and so on, and continue to repeat the above editor development process, over time, so that all electronic information device manufacturers have to Devote more time, manpower, and money to developing editors to maintain these many different editor-editor versions. In addition, application software engineers modify A, B, or C editors.

17106. ptd Page 6 200414036 V. Description of the invention (3) Editor errors (Bugs) cannot be corrected for all versions of the editor at the same time, that is, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of all editor versions being upgraded at the same time Therefore, how to develop an editor development technology that can be commonly used among languages of various countries is an input problem to be solved. [Summary of the Invention] In view of the above-mentioned shortcomings of the prior art, the main object of the present invention is to provide a writing method that can support multiple languages, thereby enabling an application software engineer to easily develop an editor that supports multilingual processing, so that the The editor included in the electronic information device can provide users from different countries to edit the content displayed by the application software interface, and can reduce the time and cost required for electronic information device manufacturers to redevelop the editor. Another object of the present invention is to provide a writing method that can support multiple languages, so that the processing functions of the editor used by the electronic information device can be infinitely expanded. So that the editor can process various branches according to the written processing function branches. The input in different situations increases the flexibility of the editor to modify the content of the editor and reduces the manpower and material resources required to maintain the editor version. The method provided by the present invention combines the characteristics of each of the different languages in the world, and The editor defines a standard and infinitely expandable writing interface for processing functions, and this interface can provide the editor with information such as the input type and country of the input characters, so that the editor can plan according to this plan. Write interface standards to easily obtain reference information such as the input type and country of the input characters, and then the editor can write a branch processing program based on this reference information to perform corresponding processing methods for different input types; During the display process, the editor can first define a discriminant function to determine all

17106. ptd Page 7 200414036 V. Description of the invention (4) Enter the direction of the string data to be displayed, so that the editor can correctly display the display direction of the string data entered by the user based on the result determined by this discriminant function. ; On the other hand, for routine operations such as deleting, inserting, and moving cursors, the editor needs to write another operation function to determine the number of bytes occupied by the input characters. The editor can use The number of bytes determined-correctly responds to the user's operation instructions. As can be seen from the above, the multi-language writing method of the present invention is used to combine the characteristics of different languages used by countries in various regions of the world, to define a standard and to extend the writing function of the processing function infinitely. , Used to achieve the design purpose of processing multi-language input, display, and delete operations. Using the method provided by the present invention allows application software engineers to easily develop an editor that can support multi-language processing to solve each language. The editors used cannot be shared among all editors, and all different versions of the editors cannot be synchronized. The problem of upgrading is synchronized, so as to avoid the human and material resources required to redevelop the editor, thereby making the development and subsequent management of the editor easier. Simplified implementation. [Embodiment] In the following embodiments, the multi-language writing method of the present invention is applied to the development process of an editor included in a personal assistant (Persona 1 Digita 1 • ssistant; PDA) In order to enable the editor to perform the data writing operation, the processing functions that it needs to follow can be infinitely expanded, so that application software engineers can easily develop an editor that can support 'multi-language input processing, so that the editor can Designed to handle multi-language input, display, and delete operations, but this is the first

17106.ptd Page 8 200414036 V. Description of the invention (5) It should be noted that the method for writing multi-language languages of the present invention is not limited to the editor development process that can only be applied to personal digital assistants; In other words, the present invention can be applied to the editor development process of any electronic information device that can display text and image information, especially portable electronic information devices, such as mobile phones, Pocket PCs, etc. An application software engineer for writing the portable electronic information device is provided with a development method of an editor capable of supporting multi-language processing. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a basic structure of a memory editor 2 of a personal digital assistant 1 to which the present invention is applied. As shown in the figure, the personal digital assistant 1 to which the present invention is applied includes an editor 2, a writing interface 10, a Character space discrimination module 20 and a data output module 30, wherein the writing interface 10 further includes a processing module 11, an input type discrimination module 12, and a language attribute and function storage unit 1 3; Only the main modules related to the present invention are shown in the basic architecture here, and the remaining unit modules, such as operation buttons and microprocessors, are not shown in this illustration. The editor 2 is a communication medium between the user and the personal digital assistant 1, and is used by the user to complete some specific tasks through the personal digital assistant 1, such as the content displayed on the application software interface (such as text, symbols, and Image data, etc.) for editing, inserting, deleting, and changing line numbers, etc. During the process of developing editor 2, the application software engineer first planned a standard in editor 2 and could extend the writing interface of the processing function indefinitely. 1 0, and the language attribute and function storage unit 1 contained in the writing interface 1 0. It stores reference materials such as character input types and character corresponding countries that can be used by the editor 2 in the process of writing data in the future. And related processing functions to facilitate

17106. ptd Page 9 200414036 V. Explanation of the invention (6) The editor 2 can smoothly perform multi-language input processing operations; when the user enters the input through the operation interface (not shown) attached to the personal data assistant 1 When string data composed of a plurality of characters (such as text, numbers, symbols, etc.) is sent to the editor 2, the processing module 1 1 included in the writing interface 10 is firstly the string input by the user The data is analyzed and processed to determine whether the editor 2 is required to perform branch processing or delete, insert, and display general operations on this string of data. If the editor 2 is to perform branch processing on this string of data, Then the processing module 1 1 causes the input type discrimination module 12 to determine that the input type of the string data belongs to generating a new character or replacing the input character, or replacing the input character and generating another A new character and one of them. Subsequently, the editor 2 can write a branch processing program by the processing module 11 according to the above-mentioned programming standard of the programming interface 10, so as to perform relative operations for the various input types described above. The processing work. In addition, because the language system of each country and region has its own characteristics, as for the encoding method, the Arabic encoding method is unit tuple encoding, that is, one character uses one tuple, and The encoding methods for Korean and Chinese are double-byte; as far as the display is concerned, Arabic is output from right to left, while Korean and Chinese are displayed from left to right, so the user input is displayed correctly. After determining the work performed by the editor 2, the processing module 11 must then retrieve it in the language attribute and function storage unit 13 based on the valid characters contained in this string data. In order to determine the country of the string data, the editor 2 can determine the encoding method of the string data and the display of the last string data. There is a clear reference for the display direction. Then, the data Processing module 1 1

17106.ptd Page 10 200414036 V. Description of the invention (7) A search function for the language attribute and function storage unit 1 3 is a discrimination function previously written by an application software engineer for the character space discrimination module 2 0, which The discriminant function is based on a comprehensive analysis of the grammatical characteristics of each language, so that the character space discrimination module 20 can determine the number of bits occupied by the characters contained in the input string data and the encoding method used Discrimination is single-character, double-character, or other encoding methods (such as Arabic for early bit encoding, Chinese for double bit encoding, etc.), so that editor 2 can determine module 2 based on the character space The correct byte value determined by 0, so that the editor 2 can correctly respond to the client's execution purpose with regard to the conventional operations such as deleting, inserting, and moving the cursor. At the same time, the processing module 11 also provides a display function previously written by the application software engineer to the data output module 30 through the character space discrimination module 20. The display function is used to determine the input input. To display the display direction of the string data, the display function must also be based on a comprehensive analysis of the characteristics of the string to be displayed. If a string of data starts with Arabic characters, the string is written from right to left In Chinese, English, Korean, Thai, etc., the strings are arranged from left to right. Subsequently, the editor 2 can correctly display the string data entered by the user according to the display direction determined by the data output module 30. direction. Figures 2A and 2B are flowcharts showing the steps and procedures of the personal digital assistant 1 of the present invention in the process of developing a multi-language input editor 2. First, the application software engineer The input method and editor 2 plan an input type that can provide the input characters (such as generating a new character, replacing the input character, and replacing the input character and generating a new character

17106. ptd Page 11 200414036 V. Description of the invention (8 yuan, etc.) and the country to which the character belongs, etc. The standard writing interface 10 that can infinitely expand the processing function, and the editor is in the process of string data processing _ Each type of processing function to be referenced is stored in the language attribute and function storage unit 13 in advance, and then proceeds to step S2. In step S2, the user uses the input method provided by the input method to input a string data composed of a plurality of characters into the editor 2 through an operation interface (not shown) provided by the personal digital assistant. The work of writing data in the included writing interface 10 then proceeds to step S3. In step S3, when the string data is input into the writing interface 10, the processing module 11 determines the items to be processed in the string data in order to determine the next step. Program, if the string data is to be branched, proceed to step S4. If the processing items of the string data are to perform general routine operations such as deletion, insertion, and display, proceed directly to step S7. In step S4 In the processing module 11, the language attributes and function storage units 13 are searched according to the valid characters contained in the string data to determine the country category to which the string data belongs, and then the processing module 11 also The valid characters of the string data are provided to the input type determination module 11 to determine whether the input type of the string data belongs to generating a new character or replacing the input character or replacing the input character. Enter the character and generate one of the new characters, and then proceed to step S5. In step S5, the processing module 1 1 included in the editor 2 then uses the information such as the country type and input type determined by the string data determined in step S4 to apply software programming. The programming interface planned by the engineer 1 0 The standard is architecture

17106. ptd page 12 200414036 V. Description of the invention (9) Write a branch processing program to make corresponding processing methods for different input types, and then proceed to step S6. In step S6, the processing module 11 included in the editor 2 is first searched in the language attribute and function storage unit 13 according to the country category of the string data previously determined to determine the The country code represented by the valid characters of the string data (for example, as a result of the determination, the country code to which the string data belongs is South Korea), and then proceed to step S 6 -1. In step S 6-1, the branch processing program written by the editor 2 performs corresponding processing on the input type determined by the input type determination module 11, and if the input type is to generate a new character, it performs Step S 6-1 1 is to replace the input characters, and step S 6-1 2 is performed to replace the input characters and generate a new character, then proceed to step S 6-1 3 to execute, if it is other more For new types, proceed to steps S 6-1 4. In step S 6-1 1, the branch processing program generates a new character in the editor 2 and sets a country attribute flag for the new character so that subsequent display operations can follow this country attribute. The mark is output in a screen that conforms to the display direction of the country text, and then proceeds to step S9. In step S 6-12, the branch processing program replaces the input characters in the editor 2 and sets a country attribute flag after the replacement so that subsequent display operations can follow this country attribute flag to The day-to-day output that conforms to the display direction of the text of the country, then proceeds to step S9. In step S 6-13, the branch processing program replaces the input character in the editor 2 and generates a new character, and sets a country attribute flag for the new character, so that subsequent display operations can be followed. This country attribute is marked with a symbol

17106.ptd Page 13 200414036 V. Description of the invention (10) Daytime output in accordance with the display direction of the country's text, and then proceed to step S9 °; In steps S 6-14, the branch processing program is in the editor 2 Set the country attribute mark for other more new types and new characters so that subsequent display operations can shield this country attribute mark to match the screen-output of the country text display direction, and then proceed to step S 9. In step S7, the processing module 11 included in the editor 2 performs normal operations such as deleting, inserting, and moving cursors on the string data according to the processing type to which the string data belongs, and then proceeds to step S 8. In step S8, the processing module 1 1 is the character space discrimination module 2 0 according to the processing function contained in the processing function written in the language attribute and function storage unit 13 previously written by the application software engineer. The discriminant function discriminates the bytes occupied by each character constituting the string data, and provides the result of the determination to the editor 2 for the editor 2 to display the string data, Based on this judgment, the number of bytes occupied by each character is known, the user's input is correctly displayed, and then the process proceeds to step S9. In step S9, the editor 2 then summarizes the processed and judged results through the processing module 11 and then proceeds to step S10. In step S 10, the processing module 11 is to instruct the data output module 30 to determine the correct display direction of the string data according to the country attribute mark contained in the string data. 俟 Data output module 3 After the judgment of 0 is completed, the editor 2 also displays the string data input by the user on the display (not shown) provided by the personal digital assistant 1 through the data output module 30. To sum up, the writing method capable of supporting multiple languages of the present invention is applicable.

17106. ptd Page 14 200414036 V. Description of the invention (11) Make the editor included in the personal digital assistant support multilingual processing, and allow application software engineers to define and expand the editor in accordance with the language attributes of different countries and regions. Storage function of the browser, so that application software engineers can easily write a program that supports multi-language editors, eliminating the time and cost caused by the need to develop an appropriate editor for the language usage of that country, saving the development of new editor Cost of the device. The above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the essential technical content of the present invention. The essential technical content of the present invention is broadly defined in the scope of patent application described below. Any technical entity or method completed by others is completely the same as that defined in the scope of patent application described below, or is the same equivalent Changes are deemed to be covered by this patent.

17106. ptd Page 15 200414036 Schematic description of the time of writing, material maps, and implementation of the 'two force Tt · 3 editor's department for the mouth of a mouth 1 ΛΡ diagram 1 grammatical assisted map position' 'number Everyone ’s personal use of the book should clearly show that each individual's personal use of the book should be clearly shown in the flow chart-and for the implementation of the figure B, 2 and A 2 At each time, the entry into the ancient speaking country is performed in multiple lines. Bit sequence number 1 person digital assistant editing interface 11 processing module group 12 input type judgment module group 13 language attribute and function storage unit 2 series, editor 20-character space determination module group 30 data output module group

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Claims (1)

200414036 VI. Scope of Patent Application 1. A method for writing in multiple languages, which is used to enable an internal editor of an electronic information device with a display to edit data entered by users in any country during the data writing process. String data composed of multiple characters is processed. This writing method includes: (1) planning a standard and infinitely expandable processing function editing interface to the editor and the input method used by it; (2) order The editor writes a branch processing program according to the planned editing interface; and (3) causes the editor to write a function to determine the display direction of the input string data to be displayed and the occupied characters of the input characters. Byte space. 2. If the method for writing a multi-language language can be supported in item 1 of the patent application, wherein the electronic information device is a handheld electronic information device. 3. For the method of writing in multiple languages that can support multi-languages under item 1 of the scope of patent application, the character represents one of the groups of characters, numbers, punctuation marks, and special symbols. 4. For the method of writing in multi-languages that can support multi-languages in item 1 of the scope of patent application, where the editing interface contains input type data of the characters entered 5. In case of the application of patents in item 4, the multi-languages that can be supported A writing method, wherein the information provided to the editor by the input type data includes one of generating a new character, replacing the input character, and replacing the input character and generating a new character. 6. If the writing method of item 1 in the scope of patent application can support multiple languages, 17106.ptd Page 17 200414036 _VI. Scope of patent application Among them, the editing interface also defines the country code represented by the input character. 7. As for the method of writing in multiple languages that can support multiple languages in the first patent application scope, the branch processing program is used to perform corresponding processing for different input types. -8. If the method for writing multi-language languages is supported in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, the processing function is used to determine the number of bits occupied by the input characters so that the editor can judge based on the content of the data The number of bytes determined by the function correctly responds to the general routine operations performed by the user. For example, the multi-language writing method that can support multi-languages in the scope of patent application No. 8 in which the general routine operation refers to deleting, copying and moving one of the groups of cursors. 10. If the method for writing multiple languages can be supported according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the processing function provides the result to the editor after determining the direction of the input string to be displayed, so that the editor can execute During data display operation, the user's input word_data can be correctly displayed on the display according to the display direction determined by this processing function. 17106.ptd Page 18