JPH0944480A - Method and device for processing character - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the redoing of an input by outputting an input mode by the font specified by the data of a received font. SOLUTION: When font designation information is received by a font change control and the font designated from application program is a font for European language, the input mode from a keyboard 3 is changed into an alphanumeric input mode. Continuously, a display font changing processing in which a use font to be used for a display to be the example of the output of an inputted character in the stored font in a storage device 2 is changed to the European language font 22 that an application designates is executed. When a font for Japanese language is designated, the input mode from the keyboard 3 is automatically changed into a KANA(Japanese syllabary)/KANJI(Chinese character) conversion input mode [for instance, a full size HIRAGANA(cursive form of Japanese syllabary) input]. Continuously, the display font changing processing in which a use font to be used for the display to be the example of the output of the inputted character in the stored font in the storage device 2 is changed to the Japanese language font 23 that the application designates is executed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character processing method and device, for example, a character processing method and device for converting input characters into kana-kanji conversion.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in application processing,
In a character processing device that can process the change notification of the font used to display the input characters, whether the font specified by the application process is the font for displaying Japanese or the font for displaying European characters. I did not judge.

[0003]

Therefore, in this conventional method, when the font notified from the application processing is a font for European languages, the character is garbled when inputting the character. there were. In order to prevent this, the operator must perform the operation of changing the input mode of the character processing device to the alphanumeric input mode before inputting characters, which is very troublesome and this operation If you forget it, the characters will be garbled.

[0004]

The present invention has been made for the purpose of solving the above-mentioned problems, and has the following structure as one means for solving the above-mentioned problems.

That is, an output means for outputting character information, an input means for inputting a character, and a font information receiving means for receiving data relating to a font used for outputting an input character from the input means to the output means, Determination means for determining whether or not the font information receiving means has received data regarding a font to be used for output to the output means; and a case where the determination means determines that the data regarding the font has been received by the input means. And a control unit that controls the output unit to perform output with a font specified by the data regarding the font that has received the input mode.

Further, for example, the control means changes the input mode from the input means to an alphanumeric input mode when it is determined that the determination means has received data relating to a European font. Alternatively, the control means changes the input mode from the input means to a kana-kanji conversion input mode when it is determined that the determination means has received data relating to a font for a Japanese sentence.

Further, for example, the output means is a display device, or the data on the font is supplied from an application program.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information processing system to which an input mode changing method of a character processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

In the information processing system shown in FIG. 1, 1
Is a central processing unit for controlling the entire system, 2 is a control program 21 of the central processing unit 1, various data such as a European font 22 and a Japanese font 23 for generating an output image from an output device such as a display device 5 described later A storage device for storing 3 is a keyboard for inputting various commands and data operated by an operator, 4 is a mouse, and 5 is a display device composed of, for example, a CRT, a liquid crystal, etc. is there.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a font changing process in the character processing apparatus of the present example having the above-mentioned configuration. The process shown in this flow chart is the control stored in the area 21 for storing the control program of the storage device 2. It is executed according to the program.

In this example, in the normal application program executed by the central processing unit 1, the input result from the keyboard 1 is displayed on the display unit 5. As a result, if there is an input from the keyboard 1, the central processing unit 1 takes in this, and a process of displaying and outputting it from the display unit 5 according to the set display font is performed. The central processing unit 1 also concurrently executes the processing shown in FIG. 2 while executing the application program. Then, when a special operation is executed, various controls corresponding to the operation are performed, and when a need arises in the application program, various control operations are performed accordingly.

Therefore, the font changing process of the present example, which will be described below with reference to FIG. 2, is executed in a state in which the operation of displaying the input result from the keyboard 1 on the display device 5 is being performed.

In the font change control process shown in FIG. 2, as shown in step S1, data relating to a font for displaying an input character for displaying the input result from the keyboard 1 on the display device by another application program or the like is normally used. That is, it is monitored whether or not the font designation information is notified. If this font specification information has not been received, the following font change processing is not executed.

In the monitoring state of step S1, when a display font change request or font information designation request is made from an application program or the like,
The control program (control program such as OS) of the central processing unit accepts this and notifies the font designation information to activate the font change control shown in FIG. When the font designation information is received by the font change control, it is determined in step S1 that the font designation information has been notified, and the process proceeds to step S2.

In step S2, it is determined whether or not the font designated by this application program is a font for European languages. Here, if a font for European characters is designated, the process proceeds to step S3, and the input mode from the keyboard 3 is changed to the alphanumeric input mode. Then, in step S4, a display font change process is executed to change the font used for display, which is an example of the output of the input characters in the storage font in the storage device 2, to the Roman font 22 designated by the application. Then, the process again proceeds to the monitoring process of step S1.

On the other hand, if the font specified by the application program in step S2 is not a Western font, the flow advances to step S5 to determine whether or not it is a Japanese font. If the Japanese font is designated, the process proceeds to step S5, and the input mode from the keyboard 3 is automatically changed to the kana-kanji conversion input mode (for example, full-width hiragana input). The input mode at this time can be changed to another input mode such as a half-width mode, katakana input mode, or any other input mode of the keyboard 3, for example, the input mode switching key of the keyboard 3. It can be switched by operating. Alternatively, for example, when the alphanumeric input mode is automatically changed from the Japanese input mode, the input mode before the change may be stored and the input mode may be returned to the stored input mode.

Subsequently, in step S7, a display font changing process is executed to change the font used for display, which is an example of the output of the input characters in the storage font in the storage device 2, to the Japanese font 23 designated by the application. . Then, the process again proceeds to the monitoring process of step S1.

Further, if the Japanese font is not designated in step S5, it means that the font that cannot be processed by the central processing unit 1 of the present example is designated, and therefore an error is displayed in step S8 and the process returns to step S1. As a result, in this case, nothing is displayed except the error display.

By controlling as described above, the input mode from the keyboard 3 can be automatically changed only by designating the font to be displayed and output in the application program, and the application can be changed without any troublesome input mode switching processing. Then, the desired input can be made. Therefore, it is possible to solve the problem that the display is not properly performed due to forgetting to switch the input mode, the input is inappropriate, and the input result is deleted or re-entered. .

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of information of a font used for displaying the input character string stored in the storage device 2.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 3a indicates the state of the input character code storage area, in which the character codes of the characters input by the keyboard 2 are 3a1, 3a in the order of input.
It is stored as 2, ... In the example shown in FIG. 3, as an example, a case where the character string “This place-where is it” is input is shown. 3b shows the state of the font information storage area used for displaying the input character string, and stores the font information designated by the application program. This font information is stored as 3b1, 3b2, ... Corresponding to the character code storage area 3a. Further, 3c is an input mode storage area for storing the current input mode.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a display screen from the display device 5 of this example.

In FIG. 4, the input character display portion 4a is a portion for displaying a character input by the operator using the keyboard 2, and indicates a position where the character input by the cursor is displayed. The function menu shown in the lower part is a part for displaying the functions of function keys generally used for instructing control of the character input processing in this example. The status is a part for displaying the input mode of the character processing device.

5 and 6 are views showing examples of status display of the character processing device shown in FIG. 4, and FIG. 5 shows an example of status when the input mode is the hiragana input mode. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a status when the input mode of the character processing device is an alphanumeric input mode.

Next, the operation of the character processing apparatus of this example thus constructed will be described with reference to the concrete examples of FIGS.

When font designation information is notified from the application program, steps S1 to S2
Proceed to. In step S2, it is determined whether the font notified from the application program is a Western font. If the font notified from the application program is a Western font, the process proceeds from step S2 to step S3, as shown at 3c in FIG. Input mode information is alphanumeric input mode. Then, in the subsequent step S4, as shown in FIG.
Change the status display to alphanumeric input mode as shown in. Then, the process returns to step S1 again.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the font specified by the application program is not a font for European languages, the process proceeds from step S2 to step S5. Determine whether. When the font notified from the application program is a Japanese font, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6, and the input mode information shown in 3c of FIG. 3 is set to, for example, the full-width hiragana input mode. Then, in step S7, the status display is changed to the full-width Roman character input mode as shown in FIG. Then, the process returns to step S1 again.

As described above, according to this example, it is determined whether or not the application has notified the data regarding the font used to display the input character, and the display font change notification determination determines that the application has notified the font. When it is determined, it is determined whether the notified font is a Western font, and when it is determined to be a European font, the input mode of the character processing device is changed to an alphanumeric input mode, and the application is determined by the display font change notification determination. When it is determined that the font has been notified from, by changing the font used to display the input character to the font specified by the application,
When the Western font is designated by the application, the input mode can be automatically changed to the alphanumeric input mode, which has the effect of simplifying the operation of the character processing device.

The present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of one device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is implemented by supplying a program to a system or an apparatus. In this case, the storage medium storing the program according to the present invention constitutes the present invention. Then, by reading the program from the storage medium to a system or an apparatus, the system or the apparatus operates in a predetermined manner.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, in response to the reception of the data regarding the output font from the application, the input mode is automatically input corresponding to the output font designated by the data regarding the output font. The mode can be changed and printed, the input character type in the input mode from the input means and the output font of the output mode information to the output means can be automatically matched, and it is desired if the input mode of the input means is forgotten to switch. It is possible to prevent the input from being made differently from the input of the above, and it is possible to obtain an effect of simplifying the operation of the character processing device.

[0032]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information processing system to which an input mode changing method of a character processing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a font changing process in this example.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data configuration of font information used for displaying an input character string stored in a storage device of this example.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of a display screen from the display device of the present example.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a status when the input mode of the character processing device shown in FIG. 4 is a hiragana input mode.

6 is a diagram showing an example of a status display of the character processing device shown in FIG. 4 when the input mode is an alphanumeric input mode.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Central Processing Unit 2 Storage Device 3 Keyboard 4 Mouse 5 Display Device

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. Output means for outputting character information, input means for inputting characters, font information receiving means for receiving data relating to a font used for outputting input characters from the input means to the output means, Determining means for determining whether or not the font information receiving means has received data relating to a font to be used for output to the output means; A character processing apparatus, comprising: a control unit that controls the output unit to perform an output in a font specified by data about a font that has received an input mode. 2. The control means changes the input mode from the input means to an alphanumeric input mode when it is determined that the determination means has received data relating to a European font. 1. The character processing device according to 1. 3. The control means changes the input mode from the input means to a kana-kanji conversion input mode when it is determined that the determination means has received data relating to a Japanese font. 1. The character processing device according to 1. 4. The character processing device according to claim 1, wherein the output means is a display device. 5. The character processing device according to claim 1, wherein the data regarding the font is supplied from an application program. 6. A character processing method in a character processing device comprising an output means for outputting character information and an input means for inputting a character, which is used for outputting an input character from the input means to the output means. If you receive data about a font to
A character processing method, characterized in that control is performed so that the output means outputs with a font specified by the font-related data received from the input means. 7. The character processing method according to claim 6, wherein the input mode from said input means is changed to an alphanumeric input mode when data relating to a European font is received. 8. The character processing method according to claim 6, wherein the input mode from said input means is changed to a kana-kanji conversion input mode when data concerning a font for a Japanese sentence is received. 9. The character processing method according to claim 6, wherein the data regarding the font is supplied from an application program.