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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Chinese Conversion</title>
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<history>
<created date="2004-07-21T12:24:22">UFI: former Chinese Translation dialog, issue 58212</created>
<lastedited date="2004-12-16T12:54:32">DEDR: reviewed</lastedited>
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<section id="chinese">
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id49745"><bookmark_value>Chinese writing systems</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>simplified Chinese;conversion to traditional Chinese</bookmark_value>
<bookmark_value>traditional Chinese;conversion to simplified Chinese</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10547" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/shared/01/06010600.xhp">Chinese Conversion</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10557" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Converts the selected Chinese text from one Chinese writing system to the other. If no text is selected, the entire document is converted.</ahelp> You can only use this command if you enable Asian language support in <emph>Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages</emph>.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10572" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Conversion direction</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10576" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Select the conversion direction.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10579" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1057D" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Converts traditional Chinese text characters to simplified Chinese text characters. Click <emph>OK</emph> to convert the selected text. If no text is selected, the whole document is converted.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10580" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10584" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Converts simplified Chinese text characters to traditional Chinese text characters. Click <emph>OK</emph> to convert the selected text. If no text is selected, the whole document is converted.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1058E" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Common terms</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10592" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Common terms are words that have the same meaning in traditional and simplified Chinese but are written with different characters.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10595" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Convert Common Terms</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10599" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Converts words with two or more characters that are in the list of common terms. After the list is scanned, the remaining text is converted character by character.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN1059C" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Edit terms</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105A0" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><ahelp hid=".">Opens the <link href="text/shared/01/06010601.xhp">Edit Dictionary</link> dialog where you can edit the list of conversion terms.</ahelp></paragraph>
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