User talk:Illusionz

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[edit] Kaila Yu

Have you tried contacting her to find out her real DOB? — J3ff 19:23, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Characters

Hi, I'm wondering if you knew how to input Chinese characters in wikipedia. It's usually # followed by numbers. Could you tell me how to do that? Illusionz 03:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Most of the time I just cut and paste UTF-8 output from online Chinese dictionaries. To input Chinese characters the way you're talking about, take "blowfish" (pinyin: tái) as an example. You input "[nowiki]鮐[/nowiki]" and end up with 鮐.
The difference between characters is the number between the # and the ;.
Just one thing: online chinese dictionaries often give unicode numbers in hex format, which means you have to convert them to decimal before you insert them between a # and a ;. One such converter can be found here.

JFD 05:21, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Microsoft Word also has unicode support - type the unicode value, press alt-x, and you should have a character that you can paste into other products (such as your web browser). --Medains