Can I have Chinese characters in a story?

[Katie_Mae]

Hi everyone. If I wanted to write a couple of Chinse characters in a story otherwise in English (ie language selected being English), will they post? I tried searching but just found threads on characters who are Chinese. To clarify, by "Chinese characters" I mean stuff like --> 肏
I read I might have a problem with diacritics but I used them and had no issues but I was able to test them out in a chapter where if it didn't post it wasn't a big deal.
If there's a high likelihood they won't post correctly I can just write around it, but it would be nice to understand if I have the option. Thanks

 

[NotWise]

How would you enter the characters?

I know that Lit allows at least some HTML entities, and any unicode character can be entered as an entity by using its decimal or hexidecimal code preceded by a hash and enclosed with & and ;. Something like ⺛

This isn't a very basic use, and I don't know if Lit supports it. Apparently the forum does not, otherwise there would be a character at the end of the last paragraph, not an html entity code.

 

[XerXesXu]

They're supported in the submissions form. I don't know how they'll publish.

 

[MrHereWriting]

Hi everyone. If I wanted to write a couple of Chinse characters in a story otherwise in English (ie language selected being English), will they post? I tried searching but just found threads on characters who are Chinese.

To clarify, by "Chinese characters" I mean stuff like --> 肏

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've used Cyrillic in a story, which rendered the characters correctly, so Chinese might work. I used a Cyrillic font, didn't need any manual html, and used the Lit Submission Form to preview.

Fair warning though, not all devices render all html-used fonts correctly. @MediocreAuthor used diacritics in a story that rendered correctly for 99.9% of readers, but my device showed a bunch of squares instead of the characters. She's not tried runes, but I'm on a promise .

Worth a try, but I'd definitely use the Preview for the best chance of WYSIWYG.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I would try using the preview system. It helped me when I made Eldritch Pact.

Fair warning though, not all devices render all html-used fonts correctly. @MediocreAuthor used diacritics in a story that rendered correctly for 99.9% of readers, but my device showed a bunch of squares instead of the characters. She's not tried runes, but I'm on a promise .

So my exaggerated diacritics looked like this:


H̷̝̜̲̞̤͓̯̻̰͋̈́̕͝e̶̜̒l̶̫̦̮̎̕ͅḷ̸͔͉̘̺̖̦̳̀̌́̋͛̌̈̿͠ͅǫ̷̼̖͉͎̺̮͖̙͋̓̉̂͘͝ ̶̲̖̩̠̪̖̐̋͑̎͝ț̶́͒̓͌̎̇̈́h̸̤̗̽̇̊̋̕̚͝ẽ̸̡̬̺͕͓͊͜͝ȑ̵͙̼͈̠͉̈́e̶̜̼̤͛̄̆̈́


and so far only electricblue and his goofy e-reader have been unable to see the proper results.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I'm pretty sure I've seen Chinese in a story recently. It wasnt more than a couple of characters 你好 but it was there and rendered correctly. The site publishes in lots of nonlatin alphabet languages including Chinese so it shouldnt be a problem.

I should add, for the edification of the board in general, that 肏 means 'fuck' and is composed of the characters 入 which means 'to enter' and 肉 which means 'meat or flesh'. I dont believe its a standard character in the mainland, at least I cant actually type it on my Chinese phone - the character 艹 which just means 'grass/flowers' but which sounds the same tends to be used instead.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hi everyone. If I wanted to write a couple of Chinse characters in a story otherwise in English (ie language selected being English), will they post? I tried searching but just found threads on characters who are Chinese. To clarify, by "Chinese characters" I mean stuff like --> 肏

Sure can. See e.g. @AwkwardMD's "Long Haul", about halfway down page 1: https://www.literotica.com/s/long-haul-ch-01

(sadly it's munged the spacing around italicised text, but AFAIK that's unrelated)

 

[AwkwardMD]

(sadly it's munged the spacing around italicised text, but AFAIK that's unrelated)

I finally got around to resubmitting the 13 stories of mine that are most affected by that particular gremlin.


The Chinese worked perfectly, though. Go figure.

 

[Katie_Mae]

Thank you everyone. Sounds like I might have luck with just copying and pasting it in and ensuring it translates across to the preview (which is the same strategy I used for the diacritics).

I should add, for the edification of the board in general, that 肏 means 'fuck' and is composed of the characters 入 which means 'to enter' and 肉 which means 'meat or flesh'. I dont believe its a standard character in the mainland, at least I cant actually type it on my Chinese phone - the character 艹 which just means 'grass/flowers' but which sounds the same tends to be used instead.

Funnily enough, this is somewhat the subject of the conversation which prompts the use of the characters.

 

[AchtungNight]

Yeah, take it from an author who had to translate “ugly mo-fo” to Old Norse for a God of War Predator crossover. Using other languages in stories is fun!